Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 85%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91.1% 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	188% 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	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160630
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 14 '17 at 13:37
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (45^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Memory 96.1 1-Core 132 2-Core 240 89% 156 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 745 68% 572 Pts	64-Core 701 43% 701 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85% 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 8592) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	91.1% Outstanding	Lighting 110 Reflection 121 Parallax 97.3 90% 110 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 126 Splatting 106 94% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 173GB free Firmware: M0CR021 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^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 36 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 337 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 87 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 54 197569544225 (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 2957548114 (F7) Unknown 100 100 92469922 (F8) Unknown 100 100 36529757 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1943 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	85.9% Excellent	Read 486 Write 339 Mixed 334 86% 386 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 77.5 4K Mixed 24.8 113% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 323 DQ Write 219 DQ Mixed 43.8 94% 195 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 99%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 48GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	188% Outstanding	Read 1,476 Write 776 Mixed 1,054 243% 1,102 MB/s	4K Read 50 4K Write 173 4K Mixed 30 206% 84.2 MB/s	DQ Read 703 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 30.5 144% 339 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 188% Great: 243%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 410GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 169 1908 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 283 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1195 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 282 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1023 (C2) HDA temperature 108 103 35 (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	80.7% Excellent	Read 143 Write 138 Mixed 131 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 1.26 4K Write 2.61 4K Mixed 0.37 141% 1.41 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 109%

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 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	MC Read 34.8 MC Write 34.8 MC Mixed 26.2 91% 31.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.9 SC Write 33 SC Mixed 28.2 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 53.5 75% 53.5 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 89.2% 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	782x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	283x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 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 $109Bench 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 $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 $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 $178	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