Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 46% Yacht	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 48.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	7.63% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	38.8% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	56.1 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170315
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 23 '17 at 10:43
Run Duration	246 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 2.25 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	48.2% Average	Memory 68.2 1-Core 23.7 2-Core 44.9 33% 45.6 Pts	4-Core 152 8-Core 465 34% 308 Pts	64-Core 760 47% 760 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4664 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.63% Terrible	Lighting 8.03 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 7.84 6% 9.13 fps	MRender 10.3 Gravity 6.9 Splatting 16.5 10% 11.2 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.63% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 725GB free Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 347 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 89 (A5) Unknown 100 100 983050 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 67 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1056 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 73 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 12 (C2) HDA temperature 70 63 270584381470 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8589934594 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 150 (EA) Unknown 100 100 223 (F1) Unknown 253 253 213 (F2) Unknown 253 253 16 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	60.3% Good	Read 412 Write 337 Mixed 329 80% 359 MB/s	4K Read 17.5 4K Write 21 4K Mixed 12.6 54% 17 MB/s	DQ Read 177 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 35.7 60% 117 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 107%
Centon SSD 240GB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^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 (01) Raw read error rate 112 112 53573099 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 17 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 12137577603404 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 584 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 372 (B1) Unknown 0 0 10 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 53573099 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 17 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 53573099 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 53573099 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21721 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13416 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13416 (F2) Unknown 0 0 16058	38.8% Below average	Read 181 Write 170 Mixed 137 36% 163 MB/s	4K Read 12.3 4K Write 35.8 4K Mixed 10.7 51% 19.6 MB/s	DQ Read 140 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 35.7 53% 100 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 104%
WD Gold 6TB (2016) -$183 2,043 User benchmarks, average bench 101% 5.5TB free Firmware: 01.01M02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 104 (03) Spinup time 177 177 34386608463 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 75 (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 100 100 644 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 65 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 446 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 446 (C2) HDA temperature 150 150 197569937448 (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	91.3% Outstanding	Read 158 Write 160 Mixed 146 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 3.35 4K Mixed 0.67 174% 1.65 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 121%
Verbatim STORE N GO 16GB 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 14GB free, PID 0302 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	8.48% Terrible	Read 31.1 Write 9.22 Mixed 14.4 20% 18.2 MB/s	4K Read 7.88 4K Write 0.03 4K Mixed 0.42 45% 2.78 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 8.48% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 4x16GB-$143 14,506 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	69.9% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 23.8 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 29.5 SC Mixed 23.6 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 106 38% 106 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 135%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	777x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	283x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	362x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	142x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	80x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	74x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	45x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	34x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $461

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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