Asus P8Z68-M PRO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 78%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.5% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-M PRO (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110720
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 30 '17 at 19:17
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	PHL-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$194 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78% Very good	Memory 93.9 1-Core 93.7 2-Core 184 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 340 8-Core 461 51% 401 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Nvidia(10DE 1C03) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	60.5% Good	Lighting 75.5 Reflection 75 Parallax 64 62% 71.5 fps	MRender 73.7 Gravity 69.5 Splatting 71.9 59% 71.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 678GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 5706 (03) Spinup time 175 171 4208 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4774 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21695 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4072 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 765 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4008 (C2) HDA temperature 100 88 47 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	65.3% Good	Read 113 Write 114 Mixed 120 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.35 123% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 76%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 295GB free (System drive) Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 839 (03) Spinup time 140 137 3983 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2945 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11035 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2555 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1045 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1899 (C2) HDA temperature 96 86 47 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	63.2% Good	Read 116 Write 104 Mixed 110 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.36 96% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 69%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 137GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2275 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3625 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8675 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1357 (B7) Unknown 78 78 22 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 4295033140 (BE) vendor-specific 58 47 706609194 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 258 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3369 (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 200 176 256 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61.2% Good	Read 112 Write 101 Mixed 93.3 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.28 87% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL10-8GBXL F3-12800CL9-4GBXL F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 16GB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	55.6% Above average	MC Read 19.1 MC Write 19.8 MC Mixed 17.8 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 17.7 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 56%

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Gaming 36%

Jet ski

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-M PRO

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	66x
Core i7-2600Intel $194Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	61x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	49x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	28x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	21x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	20x

SSD
840 Evo 120GBSamsung $85Bench 91%, 104,444 samples	28x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	15x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	14x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	13x

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Value: 55% - Above average

Total price: $531

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