Asus Z170-PRO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 84.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.4% 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	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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-PRO (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	7.6 Days
Run Date	Apr 10 '18 at 01:13
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$132 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Memory 91.1 1-Core 115 2-Core 226 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 457 61% 456 Pts	64-Core 421 26% 421 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 113 Parallax 94.9 91% 107 fps	MRender 98.2 Gravity 100 Splatting 98 81% 98.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 712GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 34014696 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 392 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6296889 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1218 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 118 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 54 705888286 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10899 (C2) HDA temperature 30 46 47244640286 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -77378130804008 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4560807510 (F2) Unknown 100 253 43382602690	86.3% Excellent	Read 163 Write 138 Mixed 133 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.2 67% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 114%
Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD 2.5" 500GB-$23 34,154 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 387GB free (System drive) Firmware: SM11 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4330784 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 350 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 8919478901 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15186 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1955 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 12885164057 (BD) vendor-specific 38 38 62 (BE) vendor-specific 73 47 689176603 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 74 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27377 (C2) HDA temperature 27 53 47244640283 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	55.7% Above average	Read 86.3 Write 106 Mixed 97.4 73% 96.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 5.76 4K Mixed 0.48 178% 2.23 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 64%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x4GB 16,770 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.5% Average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 11.9 39% 13.7 GB/s	SC Read 11.4 SC Write 13.3 SC Mixed 13.4 36% 12.7 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 88%

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Typical Z170-PRO Builds (Compare 957 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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 $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	125x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 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 $94Bench 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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GBCorsair $560Bench 84%, 34,441 samples	34x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $660

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 $42	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