Asus P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 35% Jet ski	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 30% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	33.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	67.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 DELUXE/GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Feb 20 '17 at 21:37
Run Duration	262 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (45^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 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 97.4 1-Core 118 2-Core 234 86% 150 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 596 66% 522 Pts	64-Core 593 37% 593 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Asus(1043 041C) 3GB CLim: 925 MHz, MLim: 1375 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 16.12.2 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	33.9% Below average	Lighting 44.1 Reflection 29.6 Parallax 54.8 36% 42.8 fps	MRender 28.4 Gravity 43.6 Splatting 37.1 30% 36.4 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 33.9% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB-$181 1,826 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 92GB free (System drive) Firmware: 332ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 125626731 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 -75299366605338 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2205 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 21 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 39 55837130783 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 125626731 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 125626731 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 125626731 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 20612 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16035 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16035 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17254	67.1% Good	Read 497 Write 227 Mixed 320 77% 348 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 58 4K Mixed 15.8 78% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 238 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 69.5 96% 176 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 90%
Intel X25-M 80GB 12,660 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 21GB free Firmware: 2CV102M3 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 19634 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4035 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 94 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 135152 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 2557055 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 1 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 907209628 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0	36.7% Below average	Read 257 Write 84.5 Mixed 127 34% 156 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 43.2 4K Mixed 6.66 55% 21.8 MB/s	DQ Read 178 DQ Write 80.5 DQ Mixed 47.8 57% 102 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 36.7% Great: 44%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 80008984 (03) Spinup time 96 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5483 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 1935940 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8395 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1196 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 62 588709918 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15148 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 47244640286 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -41639707933957 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6374518774 (F2) Unknown 100 253 18559378929	52.8% Above average	Read 94.3 Write 89.4 Mixed 86.7 68% 90.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.21 82% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 96%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 147 144 9608 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11031 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25120 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2347 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 71 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 30469 (C2) HDA temperature 120 109 32 (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	54.2% Above average	Read 94.5 Write 94.1 Mixed 93.9 71% 94.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.2 91% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 83%
Seagate ST31500541AS 1.5TB 9,968 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 920GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 27081505 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9339 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 48 47 2697281152720 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 28564 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4646 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295098370 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 55 9229500450 (C2) HDA temperature 34 45 47244640290 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 38 27081505 (C5) Current pending sector count 99 99 43 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 99 99 43 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -6794638232596 (F1) Unknown 100 253 84561629 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3567243429	39% Below average	Read 60.3 Write 75.4 Mixed 78.3 54% 71.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.31 82% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 39% Great: 56%
Generic External 1.5TB 41 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 392GB free, PID 1840 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	15.1% Very poor	Read 31.6 Write 25.5 Mixed 27.4 35% 28.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.46 71% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 15.1% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C9 4x4GB 1,884 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	68.8% Good	MC Read 23.7 MC Write 24.4 MC Mixed 21.7 66% 23.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 22.8 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 48.5 82% 48.5 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 82%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	142x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	38x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	28x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	22x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	18x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	14x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	13x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	18x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	13x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	11x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $545

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