Asus P8Z68-V GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.3% 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	67.3% 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.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 24 '18 at 22:54
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2700K-$89 20,692 User benchmarks, average bench 73% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 96.4 1-Core 114 2-Core 227 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 572 64% 501 Pts	64-Core 584 36% 584 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.3% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 111 Parallax 101 86% 106 fps	MRender 86.9 Gravity 96 Splatting 86 73% 89.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 128GB 1,050 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 92GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	67.3% Good	Read 850 Write 194 Mixed 316 98% 453 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 44.5 4K Mixed 6.15 64% 24 MB/s	DQ Read 21.5 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 5.94 26% 54.1 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 103%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 853GB free Firmware: JC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 97 99272142 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5920 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 57 184726965127 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6607 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3961 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 179 (BC) Unknown 100 100 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 50 437583898 (C2) HDA temperature 26 50 60129542170 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 23 99272142 (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 -85491324009278 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1301839910 (F2) Unknown 100 253 942011451	50.7% Above average	Read 106 Write 70.5 Mixed 90.8 67% 89.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.43 108% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 68%
WD WD1500AHFD-00RAR5 150GB 1,105 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 139GB free Firmware: 21.07QR5 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 167 162 4650 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6007 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 13125 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3432 (C2) HDA temperature 120 81 27 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	45.6% Average	Read 79.1 Write 79.3 Mixed 75.1 59% 77.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.57 135% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 45.6% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-020.A00LF 4x4GB 947 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	60.4% Good	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 19 57% 20.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 20.7 57% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 52.5 76% 52.5 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 54%

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 76%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V GEN3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	251x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	198x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	63x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	60x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	30x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	41x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	29x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $526

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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