Asus P8Z68-V GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	0.94% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	56.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 P8Z68-V GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	8.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110916
Uptime	3.8 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 15:58
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	Memory 92.5 1-Core 94.1 2-Core 181 73% 123 Pts	4-Core 307 8-Core 453 47% 380 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5450 66,079 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Asus(1043 0386) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	0.94% Terrible	Lighting 1.2 Reflection 1.27 Parallax 1.5 1% 1.32 fps	MRender 1.14 Gravity 0.83 Splatting 1.13 1% 1.04 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 0.94% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 26670 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 348 (B1) Unknown 88 88 419 (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 74 61 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 60662685932	56.1% Above average	Read 463 Write 89.3 Mixed 186 53% 246 MB/s	4K Read 19.5 4K Write 58.4 4K Mixed 18.4 84% 32.1 MB/s	DQ Read 179 DQ Write 132 DQ Mixed 63.4 72% 125 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 116%
Hitachi HDT725050VLA360 500GB-$159 3,335 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 96GB free Firmware: V56OA7EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 720896 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 101 101 38686949869 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 14731 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 10 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 58837 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1675 (C0) Power-off retract count 86 86 17059 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 17059 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 266288758814 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 11 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 2	37.2% Below average	Read 63.8 Write 65.5 Mixed 66.1 49% 65.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.33 90% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 40%
Seagate ST9160412AS 160GB-$24 2,432 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 53GB free Firmware: 0003LVM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 91 174128056 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12893 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 60915995 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 129557688500369 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6293 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 135 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 53 521207832 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 39 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 4589 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 44106 (C2) HDA temperature 24 47 -38654705640 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 70 61 174128056 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 -86444806764870 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	34.5% Below average	Read 59.5 Write 60.5 Mixed 59.3 45% 59.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.46 92% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 34.5% Great: 46%
WD WD2500KS-00MJB0 250GB-$78 8,440 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 51GB free Firmware: 02.01C03 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 181 5800 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18766 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 42 42 42368 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1617 (BE) vendor-specific 64 37 36 (C2) HDA temperature 114 87 36 (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	30.3% Below average	Read 48.4 Write 56.6 Mixed 49.9 39% 51.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.31 90% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 30.3% Great: 35%
WD Green 500GB (2009)-$23 63,281 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 149 146 3541 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11338 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 45 45 40758 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1003 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 35450 (C2) HDA temperature 118 103 25 (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	37.9% Below average	Read 63.8 Write 68.1 Mixed 54.9 47% 62.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.29 78% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 37.9% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.5% Average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 16.8 MC Mixed 15.2 46% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.9 SC Write 16 SC Mixed 16 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 63%

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 76%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V GEN3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	250x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	197x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	63x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	60x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	29x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	41x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	29x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $526

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	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) $35	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