Asus P8Z68-V

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	93.3% 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	70.7% 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 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Feb 13 '18 at 22:53
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (54^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.4 1-Core 118 2-Core 238 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 475 8-Core 606 69% 540 Pts	64-Core 606 38% 606 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% AMD(1002 6B76) CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.2.1 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 89 Parallax 153 95% 119 fps	MRender 86.2 Gravity 109 Splatting 128 90% 108 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 335 Series 240GB-$219 4,220 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 67GB free Firmware: 335u Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 23338852300819 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2825 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1176 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 289064 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 289064 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1119445 (F9) Unknown 100 100 6934	71.5% Very good	Read 498 Write 230 Mixed 311 76% 346 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 61.4 4K Mixed 12.4 88% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 296 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 76 112% 211 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 92%
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$70 18,195 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9017 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1739 (B1) Unknown 97 97 146 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 61 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 43 (EB) Unknown 99 99 56 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22741561418	70.7% Very good	Read 526 Write 313 Mixed 370 89% 403 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 58.3 4K Mixed 18.8 96% 34.7 MB/s	DQ Read 30 DQ Write 67 DQ Mixed 18.3 22% 38.4 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 119%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 2TB-$105 4,536 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1TB free Firmware: 1AN10002 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 200 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 61 33 11897 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8033 (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 27306 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5860 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 13330 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 53 201864314902 (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 1267 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 91637	41.2% Average	Read 71.2 Write 72 Mixed 114 66% 85.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.63 4K Mixed 0.36 108% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 41.2% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CML8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CML8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CML8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	59.3% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 20.4 MC Mixed 18.2 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 20.6 SC Mixed 20.6 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 52.7 76% 52.7 ns

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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 $129Bench 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 $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