Asus H170M-E D3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	97.7% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus H170M-E D3 (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170711
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 02 '17 at 22:04
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 135 2-Core 264 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 518 68% 511 Pts	64-Core 520 32% 520 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Asus(1043 861E) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2012 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 150 Parallax 122 99% 131 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 131 Splatting 115 95% 115 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 804GB free (System drive) Firmware: SM30 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 77141952 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 142 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 55501586 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1050 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 388 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 58 56 740294698 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4192 (C2) HDA temperature 42 44 90194313258 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	62.8% Good	Read 109 Write 108 Mixed 88.1 76% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 5.23 4K Mixed 0.63 195% 2.18 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 65%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 452GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 172 2208 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2570 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5697 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1670 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 145 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2424 (C2) HDA temperature 103 101 40 (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	81.9% Excellent	Read 138 Write 147 Mixed 138 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 1.13 4K Write 2.74 4K Mixed 0.36 137% 1.41 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Value DDR3 1600 C11 2x8GB 5,391 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1733 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	67.4% Good	MC Read 24.4 MC Write 24.7 MC Mixed 21.5 67% 23.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 21 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 61%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Asus H170M-E D3

CPU
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	64x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	57x
Core i5-6600Intel $139Bench 68%, 80,688 samples	57x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	44x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	28x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	27x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	13x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	11x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	13x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 5,347 samples	7x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $107

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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16