Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 106% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 88.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	119% 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.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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 (all builds)
Memory	25.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170426
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 27 '17 at 14:45
Run Duration	267 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.75 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Memory 81 1-Core 157 2-Core 308 97% 182 Pts	4-Core 512 8-Core 776 80% 644 Pts	64-Core 749 46% 749 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	119% Outstanding	Lighting 163 Reflection 187 Parallax 158 133% 169 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 163 Splatting 115 107% 132 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba HG5d Q Series 256GB-$225 3,223 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 167GB free Firmware: HTRAN101 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 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 17961 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1820 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AD) Unknown 185 185 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 150 (C2) HDA temperature 71 58 180389347357 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	107% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 483 Mixed 503 112% 499 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 92.5 4K Mixed 40.6 140% 52.9 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 180 172% 269 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 106%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 162GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	268% Outstanding	Read 2,743 Write 1,270 Mixed 1,410 397% 1,808 MB/s	4K Read 58.6 4K Write 142 4K Mixed 37.6 212% 79.4 MB/s	DQ Read 454 DQ Write 372 DQ Mixed 168 193% 332 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 268% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 99GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 99 99 2398 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 231 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 69 56 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 243 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3738213821	113% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 412 Mixed 417 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 97.1 4K Mixed 45.7 177% 62.4 MB/s	DQ Read 325 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 28.6 94% 206 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 57GB free Firmware: R112 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4640433 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -135291469805097 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2338 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 2281 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 45 42952622107 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4640433 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4640433 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4640433 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3078 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3872 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3872 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3626	74% Very good	Read 508 Write 135 Mixed 206 61% 283 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 18 133% 53.4 MB/s	DQ Read 195 DQ Write 132 DQ Mixed 42.7 64% 123 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 81%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 99 99 3369 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 353 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 58 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7881431264
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$100 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2TB free Firmware: MX6OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 152 152 21502886216 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2006 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2657 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 244 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2006 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2006 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 158914707485 (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 4729	97.3% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 166 Mixed 170 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 1.05 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.23 104% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 108%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$84 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 191 177 5433 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1787 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1681 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 135 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4545 (C2) HDA temperature 122 115 28 (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	72.6% Very good	Read 128 Write 125 Mixed 117 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.25 4K Mixed 0.3 113% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 84%
ASMT 2105 250GB 255 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 157GB free, PID 5136 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	170% Outstanding	Read 240 Write 240 Mixed 239 310% 240 MB/s	4K Read 16.3 4K Write 25.6 4K Mixed 10.7 1,294% 17.5 MB/s	DQ Read 19.3 DQ Write 31.8 DQ Mixed 10.7 1,518% 20.6 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 170% Great: 171%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 4x8GB-$165 6,271 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1923 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.6% Good	MC Read 23.4 MC Write 24.9 MC Mixed 21.5 66% 23.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 26.6 SC Mixed 21.8 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 78.6 51% 78.6 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 113%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,628x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,674x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,045x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,168x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,383x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,249x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	885x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	787x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	321x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	808x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	566x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	560x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

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