Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 101% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


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 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	103% 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	55.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	5760 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160630
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '17 at 21:51
Run Duration	283 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	12%

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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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 147 2-Core 295 99% 180 Pts	4-Core 500 8-Core 816 81% 658 Pts	64-Core 816 50% 816 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8593) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 137 Parallax 113 105% 126 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 144 Splatting 114 102% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 242GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5399 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 270 (A5) Unknown 100 100 25797787979 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 46 (A8) Unknown 100 100 10 (A9) Unknown 100 100 638 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 113 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 52 223339282466 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 403731578974 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2375 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6790 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5400 (F2) Unknown 253 253 12744 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	55.4% Above average	Read 261 Write 180 Mixed 174 46% 205 MB/s	4K Read 28.3 4K Write 39.9 4K Mixed 18.2 87% 28.8 MB/s	DQ Read 231 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 37.2 66% 133 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 108%
Crucial BX200 480GB-$160 11,290 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 152GB free Firmware: MU02.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (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 18 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 40 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 52 (A3) Unknown 100 100 494 (94) Unknown 100 100 6835 (95) Unknown 100 100 126 (96) Unknown 100 100 0 (97) Unknown 100 100 92 (A4) Unknown 100 100 2493 (A5) Unknown 100 100 7 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36426173382681 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 24240 (F2) Unknown 100 100 26810 (F5) Unknown 100 100 29448 (F6) Unknown 100 100 27340 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0
Poor: 57% Great: 95%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 86GB free Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 107547487 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 -67388036862320 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 855 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 52 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 107547487 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 107547487 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 107547487 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3339 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2863 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2863 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10671	53.4% Above average	Read 191 Write 106 Mixed 122 31% 140 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 15 118% 50 MB/s	DQ Read 142 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 31.9 49% 93.8 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 61%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 35GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13105 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1362 (B1) Unknown 95 95 59 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 46 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 452 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12556041030
Poor: 63% Great: 108%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 6TB 145 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 4.5TB free Firmware: 040B Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	96.2% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 150 Mixed 126 114% 153 MB/s	4K Read 1.13 4K Write 7.23 4K Mixed 0.81 270% 3.05 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 114227728 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3747 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 36831173 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15052 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1413 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 47 541838606369 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 359 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 34 34 132949 (C2) HDA temperature 33 53 -140737488355295 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 54 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 51900384808728 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21410933132 (F2) Unknown 100 253 30368036184	90.3% Outstanding	Read 163 Write 152 Mixed 146 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.37 97% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 114%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 5TB 5,792 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 743GB free Firmware: 040B Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	43.4% Average	Read 90.6 Write 58.9 Mixed 65.8 54% 71.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 6.67 4K Mixed 0.25 178% 2.52 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 88%
Seagate Expansion Desk 2TB 7,241 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 71GB free, PID 3312 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	64.6% Good	Read 96.8 Write 130 Mixed 74.9 131% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 7.19 4K Mixed 0.4 260% 2.67 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$161 35,811 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3021 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	100% Outstanding	MC Read 34.9 MC Write 39.4 MC Mixed 32.1 101% 35.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 44 SC Mixed 31.9 89% 31.1 GB/s	Latency 53.3 75% 53.3 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 110%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	785x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	284x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	364x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	142x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	81x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	75x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $447

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $40	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