Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 81.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.2% 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	79.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150810
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 30 '17 at 14:45
Run Duration	353 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing as expected (56^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 as expected (57^th percentile)	81.5% Excellent	Memory 88.7 1-Core 121 2-Core 229 83% 146 Pts	4-Core 401 8-Core 611 63% 506 Pts	64-Core 677 42% 677 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1394) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.2% Very good	Lighting 97.1 Reflection 104 Parallax 92.1 79% 97.8 fps	MRender 87.8 Gravity 89 Splatting 82.3 70% 86.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 87%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 21.20.16.4534 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.27% Terrible	Lighting 7.67 Reflection 10.6 Parallax 7.41 6% 8.56 fps	MRender 9.9 Gravity 6.57 Splatting 15.7 9% 10.7 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.27% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 18GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 8246 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 800 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17197170880 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A8) Unknown 100 100 18 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 72 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 80 40 171799019540 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 390845956187 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1316 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3663 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2745 (F2) Unknown 253 253 62786 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.5% Very good	Read 486 Write 223 Mixed 213 67% 307 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 14.9 104% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 166 DQ Mixed 47.9 92% 189 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 108%
SanDisk Ultra II 120GB-$76 9,139 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 8251 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 820 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1675198531719 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 25 (A8) Unknown 100 100 47 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 19 (AE) Unknown 100 100 87 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 47 201863856154 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6622895146502 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2311 (EA) Unknown 100 100 11540 (F1) Unknown 253 253 8158 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6272 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	79.1% Very good	Read 440 Write 298 Mixed 265 74% 334 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 76.3 4K Mixed 18.8 111% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 195 DQ Mixed 48.8 90% 182 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 93%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 64 234992174 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 376 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10968615 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 30593052051187 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 177 (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 75 65 420479001 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 97 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9421 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 17179869209 (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 36391257899568 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4717974622 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1903188590	96% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 157 Mixed 122 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.19 79% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 96%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$53 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2TB free Firmware: JKAOA20N Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 104 (03) Spinup time 115 115 51580961389 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 16653 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 5 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 110 110 40 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 37764 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 5134 (C0) Power-off retract count 75 75 31051 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 31051 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 227633528860 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 5 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	68.7% Good	Read 115 Write 125 Mixed 117 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.77 4K Mixed 0.34 81% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 481GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 73667624 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2633 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2062071 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11451 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1923 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 76 55 437190680 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22848 (C2) HDA temperature 24 45 4294967320 (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 124403727735767 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6417809462 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5026570425	94% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 158 Mixed 153 121% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.2 74% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 113%
Seagate ST3750640NS 750GB-$38 10,520 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 462GB free Firmware: 3.AEH Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 69 93704451 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7171 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 88 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 52226308750 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 32329 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2986 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 14154 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 47 572129314 (C2) HDA temperature 34 53 34359738402 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 59 49 79792943 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 99 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 99 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	30% Below average	Read 50.2 Write 54.3 Mixed 57.6 41% 54 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.29 62% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 30% Great: 42%
WL2000GSA6472R 2TB 30 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 110GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8525 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11525 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 21989 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3801 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 135 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11389 (C2) HDA temperature 121 101 31 (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	75.2% Very good	Read 146 Write 116 Mixed 109 92% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.44 117% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 83%
Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 1TB-$47 10,943 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 110GB free Firmware: GKAOAB0A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 130 130 151 (03) Spinup time 103 103 55878681252 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 24500 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 134 134 32 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 45026 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 5968 (C0) Power-off retract count 80 80 24816 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 24816 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 270583005211 (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 1	34.7% Below average	Read 63.5 Write 57.3 Mixed 50 43% 56.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.34 82% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 34.7% Great: 46%
Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 2TB-$249 29,211 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 40GB free Firmware: MN6OA5C0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 79 (03) Spinup time 144 144 34388115821 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5169 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 135 135 26 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 23974 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4813 (C0) Power-off retract count 91 91 11172 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 11172 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 236223266844 (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 1	65.7% Good	Read 139 Write 90.1 Mixed 67.8 73% 98.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.32 95% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 13,205 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.7% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 26.3 MC Mixed 22.5 72% 25 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 26.4 SC Mixed 20.6 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 68.8 58% 68.8 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 103%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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