Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	117% 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	55% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20110729
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 24 '18 at 02:13
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	78.6% Very good	Memory 95.1 1-Core 91.7 2-Core 183 73% 123 Pts	4-Core 361 8-Core 360 48% 360 Pts	64-Core 365 23% 365 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	117% Outstanding	Lighting 152 Reflection 204 Parallax 213 124% 189 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 180 Splatting 125 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 129GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1736 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 815 (A5) Unknown 100 100 764561850910 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 17 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 60 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 41 253403070506 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 773100404916 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1598 (EA) Unknown 100 100 5060 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3026 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4853 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	55% Above average	Read 363 Write 304 Mixed 239 67% 302 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 67.7 4K Mixed 3.93 71% 30.5 MB/s	DQ Read 20.9 DQ Write 88.8 DQ Mixed 6.06 19% 38.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 86%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 166 6400 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 318 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 333 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 186 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6503 (C2) HDA temperature 127 114 23 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	85.3% Excellent	Read 141 Write 156 Mixed 110 101% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.26 98% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 101%
WD Blue 250GB (2010)-$43 50,270 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 154GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 69 (03) Spinup time 142 139 3891 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6908 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12109 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4749 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 88 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6819 (C2) HDA temperature 117 105 26 (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 33	61.3% Good	Read 107 Write 106 Mixed 25.8 58% 79.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.29 90% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 70%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 118GB free Firmware: 1AJ10004 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 70 8976 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6946 (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 6678 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5493 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 34 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 789446679 (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 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 7964	51.9% Above average	Read 75.3 Write 105 Mixed 100 71% 93.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 3.19 4K Mixed 0.41 124% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 51.9% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 12GB 105 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	35.1% Below average	MC Read 11.1 MC Write 11.5 MC Mixed 10.2 31% 10.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 11.4 SC Mixed 11.2 31% 10.9 GB/s	Latency 56.8 70% 56.8 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 35.1% Great: 50%

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Gaming 40%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

Sail boat

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 $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