Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


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 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 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.2% 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	32.2% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110909
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '17 at 18:11
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	USA-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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.35 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 120 2-Core 240 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 479 8-Core 469 64% 474 Pts	64-Core 451 28% 451 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2602 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.2% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 130 Parallax 106 88% 115 fps	MRender 92 Gravity 105 Splatting 77.7 74% 91.5 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 35GB free Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 52235392263003 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1175 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 606 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 22 36 68721836054 (C2) HDA temperature 22 36 68721836054 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11073 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9333 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9333 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6788	31.4% Below average	Read 133 Write 76.8 Mixed 103 23% 104 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 47.8 4K Mixed 9.26 68% 25.9 MB/s	DQ Read 20.9 DQ Write 59.8 DQ Mixed 9.56 16% 30.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 31.4% Great: 73%
Patriot Pyro 60GB-$125 630 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: 320ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 6241948 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11373073410338 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3974 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 857 (B1) Unknown 0 0 12 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 38 73016934425 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6241948 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6241948 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6241948 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8356 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6913 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6913 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15462	32.2% Below average	Read 165 Write 57.4 Mixed 78.4 22% 100 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 52.2 4K Mixed 8.09 71% 27.4 MB/s	DQ Read 23.1 DQ Write 58.9 DQ Mixed 7.48 15% 29.8 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 68GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 132585775 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4191 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 71091709 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7701 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3969 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 78 62 370343958 (C2) HDA temperature 22 40 73014444054 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 28 132585775 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 24 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -5411658775377 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3838814392 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2718614760	53.7% Above average	Read 88.5 Write 98.6 Mixed 72.1 65% 86.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.37 88% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CML16GX3M4A1600C9 CML16GX3M4A1600C9 CML16GX3M4A1600C9 CML16GX3M4A1600C9 16GB 121 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	62.6% Good	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 22.6 MC Mixed 19.7 60% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 20.7 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 53.1 75% 53.1 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 62%

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 76%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	116x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	98x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	41x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	48x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	28x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	20x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	20x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
CMY8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 029E CMY8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 16GBUnknownBench 55%, 24 samples	10x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	8x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	8x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $522

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16