Asrock Z68 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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 70.9%, 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	65.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	6.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110518
Uptime	2.7 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '18 at 22:36
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing as expected (41^st 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, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	Memory 90 1-Core 85.9 2-Core 165 68% 114 Pts	4-Core 281 8-Core 448 45% 364 Pts	64-Core 446 28% 446 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 154 Parallax 143 110% 144 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 136 Splatting 111 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC240GD2DH16T-T 240GB 52 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 34GB free Firmware: 507ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 10400141 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 67482526154946 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2027 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 10 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 49 55837786142 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10400141 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10400141 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10400141 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8213 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4745 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4745 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5465	60.1% Good	Read 264 Write 235 Mixed 239 55% 246 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 50.1 4K Mixed 20.5 93% 32.4 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 152 DQ Mixed 62.7 75% 132 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 91%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 25525 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2669 (E8) Unknown 100 100 52162884527 (E9) Unknown 92 0 92	65.2% Good	Read 266 Write 254 Mixed 255 58% 258 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 58.8 4K Mixed 29 104% 37 MB/s	DQ Read 173 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 82.7 83% 134 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 104%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 597GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 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 100 100 4 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 47 9302 (04) Start/Stop count 80 80 21116 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20660 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3567 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 60 180389478438 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 21144	70.8% Very good	Read 129 Write 118 Mixed 116 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.71 4K Mixed 0.56 144% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8 16GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	44.4% Average	MC Read 14.9 MC Write 15.5 MC Mixed 14.3 43% 14.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 13.5 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 67.2 60% 67.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 44.4% Great: 61%

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Gaming 25%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z68 Extreme4 - $150

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	70x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	49x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	21x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	22x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x
HD 3000 (Desktop V2 1.35 GHz)Intel $15Bench 2%, 6,831 samples	10x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	7x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 47,852 samples	4x
HMT451U6AFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 56%, 3,905 samples	4x
CT102464BD160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 53%, 4,052 samples	4x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $628

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