Asus P8Z68-V

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	105% 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	55.9% 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110509
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 09 '17 at 00:10
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	Memory 90.3 1-Core 93.5 2-Core 183 72% 122 Pts	4-Core 318 8-Core 469 49% 394 Pts	64-Core 455 28% 455 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6583) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 150 Parallax 142 112% 143 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 133 Splatting 109 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 110 32632624 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 64295660446478 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2238 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 54 (B1) Unknown 0 0 10 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 34 47 60132622370 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 32632624 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 32632624 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 32632624 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25093 (EA) Unknown 0 0 17432 (F1) Unknown 0 0 17432 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10638	55.9% Above average	Read 478 Write 127 Mixed 198 58% 268 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 68 4K Mixed 11.6 83% 33.5 MB/s	DQ Read 91.2 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 45 54% 93.5 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 83%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$50 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 527GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 171 4233 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8907 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29231 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2568 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 110 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8796 (C2) HDA temperature 107 99 40 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 199 106	58.6% Above average	Read 107 Write 96.8 Mixed 88.6 73% 97.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.39 110% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 74%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 117GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 171 4316 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2777 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23250 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2089 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2725 (C2) HDA temperature 110 100 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 4 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 4 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 7	50.5% Above average	Read 97.1 Write 78.5 Mixed 84.7 65% 86.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.28 88% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 40 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	29.8% Poor	MC Read 9.6 MC Write 9.2 MC Mixed 8.7 26% 9.17 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 10.5 SC Mixed 9.5 28% 9.8 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 29.8% Great: 53%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V - $390

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	245x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	241x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	82x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	60x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	58x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	53x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	45x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	28x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	27x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	24x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	18x

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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