Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 95%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	67.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	178% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 28 '17 at 02:55
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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)	95% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 143 2-Core 283 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 499 8-Core 773 79% 636 Pts	64-Core 790 49% 790 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	67.3% Good	Lighting 85.2 Reflection 90.6 Parallax 79.6 69% 85.1 fps	MRender 83 Gravity 78.9 Splatting 72 63% 78 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 162GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	178% Outstanding	Read 1,610 Write 835 Mixed 1,064 258% 1,170 MB/s	4K Read 47.7 4K Write 150 4K Mixed 30.5 191% 76.1 MB/s	DQ Read 48.6 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 29.3 62% 119 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 178% Great: 243%
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 128GB free Firmware: O0803B5a 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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 515 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1020 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 195 (A3) Unknown 100 100 25 (A4) Unknown 100 100 37107 (A5) Unknown 100 100 69 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 8 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 126 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 5 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 191860 (F2) Unknown 100 100 112547 (F5) Unknown 100 100 296856	77.6% Very good	Read 493 Write 259 Mixed 265 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 61.9 4K Mixed 22.5 106% 37.8 MB/s	DQ Read 297 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 45.7 85% 172 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 95%
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB-$400 12,355 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 87GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 25224 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2234 (E8) Unknown 100 100 40729626296 (E9) Unknown 98 0 98	99.8% Outstanding	Read 467 Write 403 Mixed 403 94% 424 MB/s	4K Read 34.3 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 34.9 162% 64.3 MB/s	DQ Read 31.4 DQ Write 323 DQ Mixed 110 105% 155 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 106%
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 79GB free Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (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 4925 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1627 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 485 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 59 176093659165 (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 100 100 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 6090044064 (F7) Unknown 100 100 20897734 (F8) Unknown 100 100 150270033	92.6% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 275 Mixed 356 84% 378 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 30.9 143% 58.6 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 260 DQ Mixed 51.2 103% 209 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 91%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 58GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17026 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2697 (B1) Unknown 97 97 29 (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 50 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1030 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30934127735	99.1% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 353 Mixed 358 90% 407 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 80 4K Mixed 28.8 148% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 95.2 126% 232 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 126%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 14,957 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	99.9% Outstanding	MC Read 38 MC Write 38.7 MC Mixed 28.2 100% 35 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 42.5 SC Mixed 28.7 90% 31.5 GB/s	Latency 48.7 82% 48.7 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 103%

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Gaming 69%

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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	782x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	283x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	363x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	169x
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	74x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	45x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 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: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $452

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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