Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 84.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	178% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160307
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 04 '18 at 09:57
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

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PC Performing as expected (55^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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 118 2-Core 226 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 706 68% 563 Pts	64-Core 705 44% 705 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 142 Reflection 152 Parallax 126 115% 140 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 136 Splatting 112 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 172GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	178% Outstanding	Read 1,592 Write 934 Mixed 1,091 266% 1,206 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 31.8 178% 68.3 MB/s	DQ Read 52 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 31.7 47% 84.8 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 178% Great: 283%
HGST Deskstar NAS 6TB-$250 974 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 5.5TB free Firmware: APGNT517 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 138 138 100 (03) Spinup time 143 143 38684787146 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 669 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3211 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 669 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 734 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 734 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 176094642215 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	113% Outstanding	Read 203 Write 192 Mixed 154 137% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.48 117% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 120%
SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1 256GB-$43 436 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 85GB free, PID 5588 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 19% Great: 122%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GB-$41 16,658 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.3% Average	MC Read 14.4 MC Write 14.2 MC Mixed 11.6 38% 13.4 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 13.7 39% 13.6 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 79%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,630x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,676x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,045x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,169x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,383x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,251x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	885x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	787x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	321x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	809x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	566x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	560x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

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