Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 01 '17 at 20:32
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 93.7 1-Core 128 2-Core 254 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 712 71% 577 Pts	64-Core 710 44% 710 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AE) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.6% Good	Lighting 80.5 Reflection 80.8 Parallax 70 66% 77.1 fps	MRender 72.2 Gravity 72.2 Splatting 73.5 60% 72.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba Q300 480GB-$152 5,920 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 120GB free Firmware: SAFM12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2816 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 351 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C2) HDA temperature 77 55 193274642455	70.5% Very good	Read 495 Write 274 Mixed 279 77% 349 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 49.8 4K Mixed 7.79 82% 29.2 MB/s	DQ Read 324 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 35.7 84% 179 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 99%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 1TB-$56 127,507 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 861GB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 69 82814903 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 73 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 876932 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -73955041869765 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 17 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 80 65 387055636 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 112 (C2) HDA temperature 20 40 64424509460 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 102 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 69213397975080 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1005910130 (F2) Unknown 100 253 55504762 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	58.1% Above average	Read 103 Write 99.3 Mixed 79.3 70% 93.9 MB/s	4K Read 1.35 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.86 174% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 70%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 516GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 168 2491 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 862 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6381 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 854 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 57 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 804 (C2) HDA temperature 119 99 24 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	97.4% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 156 Mixed 148 122% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.29 98% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 109%
Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB-$25 163,843 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 387GB free Firmware: MS1OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 70 (03) Spinup time 122 122 12897222843 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3761 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 108 108 37 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6368 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 931 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4246 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4246 (C2) HDA temperature 240 240 188979609625 (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 200 200 748	97.5% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 164 Mixed 159 125% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.2 90% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.9% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 20.8 73% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 21.7 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 60.6 66% 60.6 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 104%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,620x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,671x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,044x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,166x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,382x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,247x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	884x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	786x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	320x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	807x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	565x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	559x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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