Asus P8Z68-V

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 89.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V (all builds)
Memory	9.3 GB free of 12 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110509
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 26 '18 at 17:07
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2700K-$89 20,692 User benchmarks, average bench 73% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	Memory 98 1-Core 130 2-Core 258 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 433 8-Core 660 68% 547 Pts	64-Core 659 41% 659 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 18.5.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.5% Good	Lighting 83 Reflection 58.4 Parallax 113 68% 84.7 fps	MRender 58.4 Gravity 78.3 Splatting 74.8 58% 70.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 546GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AJ100E4 SusWrite @10s intervals: 75 67 66 79 99 101 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	54.8% Above average	Read 109 Write 132 Mixed 73.5 SusWrite 81.2 73% 98.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1.2 215% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 75%
Seagate ST2000LM015-2E8174 2TB 39,476 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 755GB free Firmware: SDM1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 76 70 68 81 100 101 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	31% Below average	Read 24.5 Write 104 Mixed 18.8 SusWrite 82.5 42% 57.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 3.9 4K Mixed 0.3 114% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 31% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5173QH0-CK0 M391B1G73BH0-CK0 12GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51% Above average	MC Read 18 MC Write 15.8 MC Mixed 14.9 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 18 SC Mixed 16.4 47% 16.6 GB/s	Latency 46.2 87% 46.2 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 57%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V - $390

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	246x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	241x
Core i7-2600Intel $194Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	82x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	61x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	58x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	53x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	28x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	28x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	24x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	18x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $795

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $45	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