Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (29th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 71 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 75.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	88.8% 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	175% 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.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160307
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 16 '17 at 18:22
Run Duration	202 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	52%

PC Performing below expectations (29^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 way below expectations (19^th percentile)	75.8% Very good	Memory 91.4 1-Core 119 2-Core 214 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 324 8-Core 677 58% 500 Pts	64-Core 658 41% 658 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4463 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.32% Terrible	Lighting 7.57 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 8.03 6% 9.02 fps	MRender 9.43 Gravity 7.13 Splatting 16.5 10% 11 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.32% Great: 6%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8591) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	88.8% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 121 Parallax 120 93% 118 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 103 Splatting 91.8 80% 98.6 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 366GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	175% Outstanding	Read 1,870 Write 1,285 Mixed 1,205 322% 1,453 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 31.2 4K Mixed 10.6 68% 22.3 MB/s	DQ Read 37.8 DQ Write 48 DQ Mixed 20.9 22% 35.6 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 175% Great: 254%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 68GB free Firmware: 525ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 -87239375705417 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2393 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 96 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 50 42952949791 (C2) HDA temperature 31 50 42952949791 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17167 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16903 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16903 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19335	28.3% Poor	Read 157 Write 79.6 Mixed 98.5 25% 112 MB/s	4K Read 12.8 4K Write 32.7 4K Mixed 9.74 49% 18.4 MB/s	DQ Read 60.7 DQ Write 55.4 DQ Mixed 30.1 30% 48.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 28.3% Great: 73%
Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB-$25 163,843 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 125GB free Firmware: MS1OA750 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 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 94 (03) Spinup time 127 127 12896698549 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3803 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 115 115 34 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 8001 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1419 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4295 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4295 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 210454183970 (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	68.8% Good	Read 125 Write 115 Mixed 102 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.14 60% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$42 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	76.2% Very good	MC Read 27.8 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 23.3 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 30.6 SC Mixed 23.8 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 65.1 62% 65.1 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 110%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,633x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,677x
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	1,384x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,251x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	886x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	788x
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 $42Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	568x
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 $295	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