Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 79.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	110% 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	112% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20180516
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Nov 30 '19 at 04:56
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	79.5% Very good	Memory 83.2 1-Core 114 2-Core 224 79% 140 Pts	4-Core 408 8-Core 633 64% 521 Pts	64-Core 665 41% 665 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-XT-$250 254,908 User benchmarks, average bench 98% Sapphire(1DA2 E409) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.11.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 113 Parallax 230 112% 160 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 133 Splatting 155 112% 134 fps
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 316 213 193 178 149 132 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	112% Outstanding	Read 457 Write 446 Mixed 375 SusWrite 197 83% 369 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 60.9 213% 78 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 323 DQ Mixed 341 257% 344 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 124%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 269GB free Firmware: 82.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 89 88 89 89 89 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	51% Above average	Read 88.3 Write 90.5 Mixed 73 SusWrite 88.9 63% 85.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.9 174% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 86%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GB 60,539 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 15GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 4.5 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	5.71% Terrible	Read 23 Write 4.8 Mixed 5.5 SusWrite 4.5 10% 9.45 MB/s	4K Read 3.3 4K Write 0.2 4K Mixed 0.4 33% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.71% Great: 17%

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 @ 2187 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	63.4% Good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 23.8 MC Mixed 19.5 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 20.2 SC Mixed 16.6 50% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 79%

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

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

Gunboat

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