Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 45% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.1%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	70.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	58.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120217
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '17 at 03:13
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 39,452 User benchmarks - Average bench 72% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	73.1% Very good	SC Int 114 SC Float 114 SC Mixed 113 91% 114 Pts	QC Int 388 QC Float 401 QC Mixed 355 86% 382 Pts	MC Int 383 MC Float 362 MC Mixed 401 57% 382 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$390 49,360 User benchmarks - Average bench 64% MSI(1462 3413) CLim: 1303 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.3.2 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	70.6% Very good	Lighting 216 Reflection 174 Parallax 269 73% 220 fps	MRender 144 Gravity 203 Splatting 130 69% 159 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 72%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 5,367 User benchmarks - Average bench 67% 57GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 37556 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 199 (B1) Unknown 92 92 287 (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 50 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 78 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33084026097	58.9% Above average	Read 503 Write 260 Mixed 318 79% 360 MB/s	4K Read 18.1 4K Write 49.2 4K Mixed 13.4 71% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 18.8 DQ Write 71.4 DQ Mixed 51.3 38% 47.2 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 82%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 5,631 User benchmarks - Average bench 68% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 5400 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 194 180 7275 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1284 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12996 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 58 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 187 187 41072 (C2) HDA temperature 118 105 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	72% Very good	Read 132 Write 119 Mixed 119 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.19 98% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 5,637 User benchmarks - Average bench 54% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	61.3% Good	MC Read 20.3 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 19.8 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 19.1 54% 18.8 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 65%

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

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Gaming 60%

Gunboat

Desktop 66%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 43%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 - $150

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $279Bench 71%, 29,877 samples	657x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 72%, 39,452 samples	649x
Core i7-2700KIntel $299Bench 70%, 4,405 samples	262x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $350Bench 65%, 183,377 samples	255x
GTX 1070Nvidia $410Bench 100%, 153,986 samples	126x
GTX 560 TiNvidia $188Bench 22%, 12,116 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $90Bench 95%, 156,926 samples	170x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $150Bench 96%, 92,887 samples	148x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $130Bench 80%, 44,085 samples	99x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsair $64Bench 49%, 16,748 samples	162x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 55%, 3,878 samples	137x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperX $69Bench 50%, 16,286 samples	109x

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Value: 70% - Good

Total price: $933

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-7700K $300	Nvidia GTX 1070 $367	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $90
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 $280	AMD RX 480 $390	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $118
Intel Core i5-7600K $220	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $275	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $150

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $45	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $718	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $77	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $140	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $22
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB $57	HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB $139	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $13