Asus P8Z68-V LX

Performance Results


Gaming 110% UFO	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 83% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 84.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	134% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	52.8% 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (46%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V LX (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110913
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 21 '17 at 15:21
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	46%

PC Performing as expected (50^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% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 108 2-Core 225 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 433 8-Core 412 57% 422 Pts	64-Core 438 27% 438 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EB) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 190 Reflection 210 Parallax 183 155% 194 fps	MRender 137 Gravity 180 Splatting 129 120% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 51848383 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -126804614439516 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 958 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 243 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 43 73017262114 (C2) HDA temperature 34 43 73017262114 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 51848383 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 51848383 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 51848383 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17523 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13255 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13255 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17471 (F4) Unknown 98 98 7340109	52.8% Above average	Read 511 Write 171 Mixed 208 64% 296 MB/s	4K Read 15.1 4K Write 49.7 4K Mixed 13 66% 25.9 MB/s	DQ Read 24.3 DQ Write 84.4 DQ Mixed 9.52 20% 39.4 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 119GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 220824608 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1717 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 73769554 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11679 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1459 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 82 82 18 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 170 (BE) vendor-specific 65 57 4917821475 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 404 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 41 41 118918 (C2) HDA temperature 35 43 -140737488355293 (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 31907312048047 (F1) Unknown 100 253 52506301201 (F2) Unknown 100 253 50794613912	74.3% Very good	Read 101 Write 158 Mixed 96.2 88% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.26 87% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	35% Below average	MC Read 10.7 MC Write 11.4 MC Mixed 10.3 31% 10.8 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 11.5 SC Mixed 11.5 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 55.4 72% 55.4 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 35% Great: 86%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V LX

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	486x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	423x
Core i7-2600Intel $195Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	195x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	133x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	122x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	103x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	71x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	44x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	65x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	54x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	52x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $333

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15	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