Asus P8Z68-V LX

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 70% Battle cruiser	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	10.4% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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 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	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 21 '17 at 14:21
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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-$197 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	76.9% Very good	Memory 89.6 1-Core 95.9 2-Core 190 73% 125 Pts	4-Core 353 8-Core 473 52% 413 Pts	64-Core 474 29% 474 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% EVGA(3842 1556) 1GB CLim: 951 MHz, MLim: 1089 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 347.52 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	10.4% Very poor	Lighting 11.7 Reflection 13.8 Parallax 9.91 10% 11.8 fps	MRender 16.2 Gravity 12.5 Splatting 15.7 12% 14.8 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 10.4% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 120GB free (System drive) Firmware: 05.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 178 3900 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1447 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5720 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1421 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 109 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1337 (C2) HDA temperature 107 98 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 200 200 0	55.9% Above average	Read 101 Write 93.3 Mixed 69.7 66% 88.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.15 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.21 58% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 76%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 62GB free Firmware: 15.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 142 3850 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1545 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 878 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 582 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1502 (C2) HDA temperature 106 99 37 (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 200 200 0	53.6% Above average	Read 106 Write 80.7 Mixed 90.8 70% 92.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.38 97% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 69%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 56GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 119384192 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1268 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 5054520 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2745 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 517 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 58 555745313 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 37 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4065 (C2) HDA temperature 33 42 77309411361 (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 27882927687403 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9383697008 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2980086275	58.3% Above average	Read 94.4 Write 107 Mixed 91.7 74% 97.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 5.34 4K Mixed 0.86 227% 2.33 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 029E CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 16GB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	49.4% Average	MC Read 17.3 MC Write 17.2 MC Mixed 15.3 47% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 17 SC Mixed 16.9 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 52%

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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 $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 $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 $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