Asus Z170-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	82.8% 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	73.7% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-PRO (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151001
Uptime	8.2 Days
Run Date	Jul 29 '17 at 05:27
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	77.6% Very good	Memory 90.9 1-Core 126 2-Core 238 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 352 8-Core 475 52% 414 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.8% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 116 Parallax 97.8 83% 105 fps	MRender 99.8 Gravity 98.1 Splatting 104 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 SATA M.2 525GB-$140 20,154 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 228GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 165 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 40 257699479593 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 757625120 (F7) Unknown 100 100 23687842 (F8) Unknown 100 100 13627197 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1948 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	81.6% Excellent	Read 463 Write 338 Mixed 339 84% 380 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 72.7 4K Mixed 22.8 101% 39.1 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 44.6 95% 197 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 98%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 42GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 2274 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 850 (A5) Unknown 100 100 270629274194 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 41 (A8) Unknown 100 100 39 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 181 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 42 180390002722 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2551232594514 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1959 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6105 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4592 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4107 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.7% Very good	Read 467 Write 301 Mixed 293 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 54.1 4K Mixed 17 84% 31.1 MB/s	DQ Read 333 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 48.6 93% 191 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 101%
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 11GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1965 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 589 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 235 (AD) Unknown 100 100 196620 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 54 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 846	73.9% Very good	Read 498 Write 342 Mixed 357 88% 399 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 45.2 4K Mixed 10.2 73% 26.4 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 48.2 97% 199 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 97%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 184GB free Firmware: HP35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 78725757 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3973 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 246426808 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21072 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1952 (B4) Unknown 100 100 3485388799 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 55 555417633 (C2) HDA temperature 33 45 64424509473 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 21 78725757 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2	60.3% Good	Read 102 Write 108 Mixed 83.9 73% 98 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.43 106% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.3% Average	MC Read 13.7 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 11.4 38% 13.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 15.3 SC Mixed 14.9 41% 14.2 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 95%

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

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-PRO - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	513x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	125x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	78x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	169x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	105x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	71x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	23x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	69x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GBCorsair $560Bench 84%, 34,441 samples	34x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $674

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 $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) $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