Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	121% 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	105% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 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	Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120629
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 08 '17 at 10:36
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (56^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 3.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 88.6 1-Core 113 2-Core 226 81% 143 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 444 59% 441 Pts	64-Core 446 28% 446 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 82.3% 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 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	121% Outstanding	Lighting 159 Reflection 199 Parallax 188 130% 182 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 181 Splatting 129 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 110GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4029 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1495 (B1) Unknown 97 97 47 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 54 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 72 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16348565855	105% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 412 Mixed 174 81% 368 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 76.3 4K Mixed 42.9 159% 53.8 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 104 112% 188 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 44GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3191 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1117 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 73 61 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 36 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5374394825	105% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 415 Mixed 275 89% 403 MB/s	4K Read 42 4K Write 69.1 4K Mixed 43.6 156% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 111 117% 194 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 134%
WD WD5000AACS-00ZUB0 500GB 19,716 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 193GB free Firmware: 05.04C05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 136 130 6191 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7190 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12157 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3994 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 240 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7189 (C2) HDA temperature 125 77 22 (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 19 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43.7% Average	Read 76 Write 75.9 Mixed 70.2 56% 74.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.29 91% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 49%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 14GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 192282696 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4779 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7724033 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6198 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2483 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 33 99188146200 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 668 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 28445 (C2) HDA temperature 24 67 -140737488355304 (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 104711302678453 (F1) Unknown 100 253 129351241355494 (F2) Unknown 100 253 124294656713601	70.3% Very good	Read 121 Write 124 Mixed 31.4 67% 92.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.33 89% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333 C9 4x4GB 2,501 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	50.2% Above average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 18.2 MC Mixed 15.9 48% 17 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 16.2 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 54%

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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	114x
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	47x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	27x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	20x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 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: 58% - Above average

Total price: $526

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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