Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	35.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	27.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 08 '17 at 18:47
Run Duration	220 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 90.8 1-Core 140 2-Core 250 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 763 75% 614 Pts	64-Core 761 47% 761 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 93% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 79GB free Firmware: 1B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6537 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1872 (B1) Unknown 97 97 45 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 55 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 486 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25797413287	109% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 403 Mixed 421 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 82.5 4K Mixed 45.4 166% 56.8 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 116 134% 232 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 134%
SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB-$40 16,752 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 2440 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 712 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3036606694350 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 25 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 88 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 52 25 322122547248 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1391583166788 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6987 (EA) Unknown 100 100 18247 (F1) Unknown 253 253 6809 (F2) Unknown 253 253 10885 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	35.4% Below average	Read 201 Write 12.4 Mixed 264 35% 159 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 82.2 4K Mixed 0.04 69% 33 MB/s	DQ Read 150 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 0.04 52% 124 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 35.4% Great: 76%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 13GB free Firmware: 00RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4534 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1379 (A5) Unknown 100 100 163233202493 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 31 (A8) Unknown 100 100 25 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 10 (AE) Unknown 100 100 233 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 50 214749347866 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1314293547520 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4667 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6319 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4964 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6944 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	84.3% Excellent	Read 500 Write 331 Mixed 321 85% 384 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 67.9 4K Mixed 19.6 111% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 329 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 51.7 95% 193 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 108%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$120 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 5TB free Firmware: AR17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 37611856 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1425 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 4361336698 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2142 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 224 (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 75 54 420610073 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2435 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5627 (C2) HDA temperature 25 46 73014444057 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 111 99 37611856 (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 -12841952213625 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10043780100 (F2) Unknown 100 253 273731545593	73.9% Very good	Read 147 Write 110 Mixed 112 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 1.12 4K Write 3.5 4K Mixed 0.47 164% 1.7 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 87%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 733GB free Firmware: 0A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 130 124 6483 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9104 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13376 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5035 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 639 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 145 145 167033 (C2) HDA temperature 123 95 24 (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	50% Average	Read 94.4 Write 79.8 Mixed 78.7 63% 84.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.18 65% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 2133 C15 2x16GB 891 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	74.6% Very good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 22.9 75% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 28.9 SC Mixed 23.2 67% 23.5 GB/s	Latency 66.1 60% 66.1 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 80%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,655x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,687x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,049x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,176x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,385x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,255x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	891x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	791x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	323x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	815x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	570x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	561x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $755

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16