Asus P8Z68-V LX

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 84.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V LX (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 31 '17 at 20:52
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Memory 90.8 1-Core 115 2-Core 229 82% 145 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 448 60% 448 Pts	64-Core 443 27% 443 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3609) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	108% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 197 Parallax 208 106% 178 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 179 Splatting 126 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3491 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 960 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 61 46 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 41 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13004499795
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 264GB free Firmware: KC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 80 1072 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3717 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 227776038 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12832 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3388 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 21255 (BC) Unknown 100 98 179 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 555221025 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 55834574881 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 25 1072 (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 39320425607764 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2486932981 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3049686433	63.9% Good	Read 109 Write 114 Mixed 104 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.45 84% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 88%
WD Elements 2TB 35,768 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 1TB free, PID 10b8 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	35.8% Below average	Read 85.4 Write 82.3 Mixed 57.2 94% 75 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.2 68% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 35.8% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	52.8% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 19.2 MC Mixed 16.6 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 19 SC Mixed 17.1 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 66.1 60% 66.1 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 76%

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

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

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	422x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 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 $129Bench 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 $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