Asus P8Z68-V LX

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 86.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	105% 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.
Boot Drive	42.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V LX (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 20 '18 at 13:05
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.3% Excellent	Memory 90.9 1-Core 121 2-Core 242 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 479 63% 475 Pts	64-Core 476 29% 476 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 150 Parallax 139 111% 142 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 133 Splatting 109 97% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD370S 128GB-$70 10,510 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 89GB free Firmware: O1225G Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^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 10 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 118 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 150 (A3) Unknown 100 100 15 (A4) Unknown 100 100 9218 (A5) Unknown 100 100 18 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 4 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 375 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 11572 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7542 (F5) Unknown 100 100 18436	79.4% Very good	Read 520 Write 193 Mixed 278 72% 330 MB/s	4K Read 26 4K Write 74.3 4K Mixed 33.1 121% 44.5 MB/s	DQ Read 235 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 68.7 90% 164 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 90%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 20724 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3494 (B1) Unknown 71 71 1042 (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 47 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 10 (EB) Unknown 99 99 675 (F1) Unknown 99 99 68292665502	42.3% Average	Read 378 Write 176 Mixed 267 60% 274 MB/s	4K Read 9.72 4K Write 36.5 4K Mixed 11.4 49% 19.2 MB/s	DQ Read 21.7 DQ Write 54.2 DQ Mixed 12.3 17% 29.4 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 76%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$100 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 373GB 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 139 139 70 (03) Spinup time 148 148 25793724825 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1018 (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 2355 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 598 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1018 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1018 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 188979675170 (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	97% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 165 Mixed 166 127% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.19 92% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown GR1333D364L9/4G 8GB 180 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	28.8% Poor	MC Read 9.1 MC Write 9.3 MC Mixed 8.3 25% 8.9 GB/s	SC Read 8.9 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 8.3 25% 8.77 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 53%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V LX

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	486x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	422x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	195x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	133x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	122x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	103x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	71x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	44x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	65x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	54x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	52x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $333

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) $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