Asus P8Z68 DELUXE

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	10.8% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	82.7% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68 DELUXE (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110805
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	May 09 '17 at 08:11
Run Duration	87 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 111 2-Core 223 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 446 60% 445 Pts	64-Core 444 27% 444 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Zotac(19DA 5194) 1GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1100 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	10.8% Very poor	Lighting 12 Reflection 14.3 Parallax 10.2 10% 12.2 fps	MRender 16.8 Gravity 12.6 Splatting 16.6 13% 15.3 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 10.8% Great: 9%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 312GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2529 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 614 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 69 54 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 26 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5603594435	82.7% Excellent	Read 517 Write 496 Mixed 509 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 53.9 4K Mixed 20.6 98% 34.3 MB/s	DQ Read 30.3 DQ Write 83 DQ Mixed 19.9 26% 44.4 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 124%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-439.A00LF 4x4GB 760 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	61.7% Good	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 19.4 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 19.8 SC Mixed 19.2 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 53.1 75% 53.1 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 84%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68 DELUXE - $250

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	260x
Core i7-2600Intel $191Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	36x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	35x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	26x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	25x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	15x
850 Pro 512GBSamsung $190Bench 102%, 68,849 samples	13x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	18x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	13x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 5,347 samples	11x

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Value: 72% - Very good

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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