Asus P8Z68-V GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.8% 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	69.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110916
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 31 '18 at 21:14
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing way above expectations (90^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 96.5 1-Core 115 2-Core 229 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 404 58% 428 Pts	64-Core 439 27% 439 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4992) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 113 Parallax 102 91% 109 fps	MRender 91.7 Gravity 99.6 Splatting 81.6 74% 91 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 189GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 172 (09) Power-on hours count 64 100 4672 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 992 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7310 (A7) Unknown 100 100 72 (A8) Unknown 100 100 7361 (A9) Unknown 100 100 198 (AA) Unknown 100 100 172 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7313 (AE) Unknown 100 100 135 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 734 (C2) HDA temperature 59 100 261993005097 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 244 (E8) Unknown 100 100 39 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1424610 (F1) Unknown 253 253 15142 (F2) Unknown 253 253 18535	69.8% Good	Read 447 Write 369 Mixed 377 89% 398 MB/s	4K Read 16.1 4K Write 83.3 4K Mixed 4.14 74% 34.5 MB/s	DQ Read 185 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 19.9 67% 144 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 86%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 159GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 90 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 69 9070 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5191 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21835 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1991 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 24 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 53 201863856151 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 98 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 11608	73.1% Very good	Read 97.9 Write 157 Mixed 99.6 88% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 2.38 4K Mixed 0.56 124% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 75%
Innostor Innostor 64GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 54GB free, PID 0916 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	25% Poor	Read 88.1 Write 50.6 Mixed 11.4 53% 50 MB/s	4K Read 4.85 4K Write 0.03 4K Mixed 0.14 24% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 25% Great: 25%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 73,650 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	64.4% Good	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 23.6 MC Mixed 20.3 63% 21.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 20 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 52 77% 52 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 62%

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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	251x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	198x
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	30x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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 $269	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 $177	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