Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	82.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	60.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160307
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 08 '17 at 11:43
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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-$59 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.7% Outstanding	Memory 93.1 1-Core 131 2-Core 265 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 520 8-Core 530 70% 525 Pts	64-Core 528 33% 528 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8597) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.9% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 113 Parallax 98.1 85% 105 fps	MRender 95.1 Gravity 94.7 Splatting 97.8 79% 95.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 25GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10808054 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 38345468023184 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 519 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 35 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 35 68721770523 (C2) HDA temperature 27 35 68721770523 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10808054 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10808054 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10808054 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 34359738369 (E9) Unknown 0 0 18163 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14745 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14745 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4575 (F4) Unknown 96 96 10223745	60.2% Good	Read 497 Write 109 Mixed 168 56% 258 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 99.2 4K Mixed 10.7 109% 46 MB/s	DQ Read 26.4 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 17.6 28% 50.6 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 224075832 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 303 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11323313 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2649 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 301 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 61 403701784 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11828 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 55834574872 (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 84752589653862 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2244801689 (F2) Unknown 100 253 39890537473	102% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 171 Mixed 168 131% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.2 74% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 114%
WD 5000AAV External 500GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 12GB free Firmware: 1.65 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 130 123 6475 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14799 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 30 30 51197 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 349 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 14788 (C2) HDA temperature 116 90 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	25.7% Poor	Read 43.4 Write 45.4 Mixed 42.7 33% 43.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.33 95% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 25.7% Great: 25%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$23 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 3GB free Firmware: 18.01H18 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 141 3850 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7103 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20068 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2340 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 91 4295032869 (BE) vendor-specific 73 56 454230043 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 245 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6857 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	40.7% Average	Read 67.2 Write 74.4 Mixed 76.3 55% 72.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.19 58% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSC.16FBD 2x8GB 5,640 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	87.9% Excellent	MC Read 31.9 MC Write 33.6 MC Mixed 28.9 90% 31.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 32.2 SC Mixed 26 73% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 61.9 65% 61.9 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 89%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,727x
Core i5-6600KIntel $59Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,725x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,061x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,201x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,392x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,269x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	900x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	800x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	326x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	823x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	576x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	563x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $891

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $164	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $149
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $245	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $359