Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 48% Yacht	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 92.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	49.1% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	94.7% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 14 '17 at 00:49
Run Duration	365 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	Memory 96.3 1-Core 141 2-Core 277 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 478 8-Core 780 77% 629 Pts	64-Core 779 48% 779 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4534 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.84% Terrible	Lighting 8.43 Reflection 12.2 Parallax 8.5 7% 9.71 fps	MRender 9.95 Gravity 6.97 Splatting 16.7 10% 11.2 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.84% Great: 7%
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (57^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	49.1% Average	Lighting 60.4 Reflection 66.5 Parallax 59.1 49% 62 fps	MRender 71.7 Gravity 57.7 Splatting 53.3 49% 60.9 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSCKKF512H6 SATA 512GB 592 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 434GB free Firmware: LBF003B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (AA) Unknown 99 99 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 1034 (B2) Unknown 93 93 7 (B3) Unknown 100 100 18 (B4) Unknown 99 99 6134 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 50 71 124558704690 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 103 103 5347884 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 6434 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 0 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EC) Unknown 100 100 0 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6434 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1325 (F9) Unknown 100 100 187	106% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 410 Mixed 458 103% 463 MB/s	4K Read 30.8 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 41.6 158% 60.9 MB/s	DQ Read 241 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 67.4 103% 193 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 88%
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 67GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^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 2046 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 156 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 20 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 57 184684773406 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1712533509 (F7) Unknown 100 100 53532642 (F8) Unknown 100 100 22948203 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1261 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	85.3% Excellent	Read 484 Write 339 Mixed 339 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 90.7 4K Mixed 23.5 119% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 217 DQ Write 228 DQ Mixed 27.4 74% 157 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 95%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13726 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1806 (B1) Unknown 86 86 159 (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 66 55 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 168 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33099997233	94.7% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 336 Mixed 336 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 88.8 4K Mixed 24 148% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 21.1 79% 178 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 108%
Toshiba MK7575GSX 750GB-$63 7,628 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 32GB free Firmware: GT001M Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 2112 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 8689 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 14917 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3812 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 815 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 980680768 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 151674 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 214748889116 (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 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 8221 (DE) Loaded hours 91 91 3879 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 309 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	40.9% Average	Read 60.3 Write 82.1 Mixed 77.3 55% 73.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.22 67% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 55%
Generic Flash Disk 16GB 18,883 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 11GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	4.99% Terrible	Read 17.2 Write 5.75 Mixed 5.17 10% 9.38 MB/s	4K Read 5.19 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.005 20% 1.73 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.99% Great: 8%

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 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52% Above average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 15.3 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 17 SC Mixed 13.3 41% 14.2 GB/s	Latency 52.9 76% 52.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	777x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	283x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	362x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	142x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	80x
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 $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: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $461

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