Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	55.4% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20111122
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Nov 20 '17 at 05:31
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 96.4 1-Core 119 2-Core 224 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 604 62% 502 Pts	64-Core 608 38% 608 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 83%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6170) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2152 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 121 Parallax 104 88% 111 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 99.1 Splatting 105 85% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 88%
Intel HD 3000 (Desktop V2 1.35 GHz)-$15 6,831 User benchmarks, average bench 2% ASRock(1849 0122) 2GB Driver: igdumd64.dll Ver. 9.17.10.4229 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	2.35% Terrible	Lighting 2.57 Reflection 3.96 Parallax 1.72 2% 2.75 fps	MRender 3.86 Gravity 1.4 Splatting 4.74 3% 3.33 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 2.35% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 41GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5747 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 997 (A8) Unknown 100 100 260 (AA) Unknown 100 100 239 (AD) Unknown 100 100 786461 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 97 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 259 (E7) Temperature 100 100 88 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3254	73.2% Very good	Read 515 Write 356 Mixed 252 83% 374 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 37.9 4K Mixed 10.3 75% 25.2 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 192 DQ Mixed 46.1 80% 158 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 97%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 9GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 23445798 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 65979287618995 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 474 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 116 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 36 72 64429228068 (C2) HDA temperature 36 72 64429228068 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 23445798 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 23445798 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 23445798 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22284 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13158 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13158 (F2) Unknown 0 0 22028	55.4% Above average	Read 443 Write 124 Mixed 155 52% 241 MB/s	4K Read 17.3 4K Write 56.7 4K Mixed 15.3 76% 29.7 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 47.2 69% 131 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 73%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 153GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 4216 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2194 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17767 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2180 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 114 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2079 (C2) HDA temperature 110 95 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	60.4% Good	Read 119 Write 91.9 Mixed 9.64 53% 73.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.33 97% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 76%
Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 500GB 64,410 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 21GB free Firmware: GG2OACY0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 200 200 64424509441 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1781 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 5503 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1266 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 165566 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 227634118684 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	38.8% Below average	Read 61.5 Write 73.8 Mixed 12.2 36% 49.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.12 53% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4GBSR2 F3-12800CL9-4GBSR2 F3-12800CL9-4GBSR2 F3-12800CL9-4GBSR2 16GB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	58.5% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 20.1 MC Mixed 18 55% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 20.3 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 52.5 76% 52.5 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 61%

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Gaming 40%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	342x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	119x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	50x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	56x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	54x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	46x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	20x

RAM
Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 52%, 16,472 samples	14x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	12x
CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBCorsairBench 48%, 1,087 samples	12x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $463

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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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