Asus Z170I PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	171% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z170I PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160113
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 17 '17 at 06:24
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 86.3 1-Core 140 2-Core 279 92% 168 Pts	4-Core 534 8-Core 504 70% 519 Pts	64-Core 522 32% 522 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1605 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Lighting 77.1 Reflection 77.7 Parallax 70.5 63% 75.1 fps	MRender 84 Gravity 70.8 Splatting 62.7 58% 72.5 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 PRO Series 4TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 220034148 (03) Spinup time 90 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3725 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 25023373 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8434 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 617 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 46 41 2285864550454 (BF) G-sense error rate 96 96 8447 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18733 (C2) HDA temperature 54 59 73014444086 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 60 42 220034148 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 23154168695599 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14138157816 (F2) Unknown 100 253 53967271803	19.5% Very poor	Read 188 Write 186 Mixed 151 39% 175 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.29 2% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 19.5% Great: 20%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 93GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	171% Outstanding	Read 1,249 Write 599 Mixed 936 205% 928 MB/s	4K Read 48.6 4K Write 155 4K Mixed 50.1 220% 84.4 MB/s	DQ Read 576 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 179 192% 330 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 171% Great: 243%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 14GB free Firmware: DXM04B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18063 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1692 (B1) Unknown 94 94 187 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 53 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 318 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11474695391	101% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 367 Mixed 413 96% 433 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 25.4 146% 57.1 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 68.8 126% 251 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$46 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1923 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.3% Good	MC Read 23.2 MC Write 25.2 MC Mixed 21.6 67% 23.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 17.5 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 71 56% 71 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 80%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170I PRO GAMING - $165

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	578x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	431x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	144x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	218x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	168x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	152x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	72x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	68x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	99x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	81x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	49x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $620

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16