Asus P8Z68-V GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	94.6% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120507
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Jun 25 '17 at 18:16
Run Duration	386 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 119 2-Core 238 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 475 8-Core 475 64% 475 Pts	64-Core 475 29% 475 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% XFX(1682 9395) CLim: 1090 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61.5% Good	Lighting 77.9 Reflection 65.7 Parallax 84.9 64% 76.2 fps	MRender 64.9 Gravity 58.2 Splatting 82.4 58% 68.5 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 167GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1376 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 403 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 68 62 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7200214803	94.6% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 404 Mixed 415 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 96.1 4K Mixed 28.1 156% 56.6 MB/s	DQ Read 48.3 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 27.8 35% 59.9 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 134%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 119GB free Firmware: X31000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 3017 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1123 (A5) Unknown 100 100 163234840919 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 43 (A8) Unknown 100 100 21 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7 (AE) Unknown 100 100 64 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 34 146029871131 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1370113966399 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1584 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3427 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2479 (F2) Unknown 253 253 9049 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.7% Very good	Read 468 Write 336 Mixed 330 84% 378 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 56.9 4K Mixed 14.8 96% 34.3 MB/s	DQ Read 32 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 46.6 59% 98.8 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 101%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 64GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2733082 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -108697032321208 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 397 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 155 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2733082 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2733082 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2733082 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4822 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5054 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5054 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11022	44.1% Average	Read 197 Write 100 Mixed 117 30% 138 MB/s	4K Read 17.1 4K Write 63.4 4K Mixed 17.6 82% 32.7 MB/s	DQ Read 136 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 29.5 48% 91.7 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 44.1% Great: 61%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 345GB free Firmware: KC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 792 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2740 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34853997 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 6130 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2633 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 113 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 48 404029464 (C2) HDA temperature 24 52 47244640280 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 29 792 (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 -73289321932813 (F1) Unknown 100 253 809492031 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3273059802	65.4% Good	Read 115 Write 114 Mixed 102 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.76 125% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 88%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 32GB 34,316 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 28GB free, PID 5567, sandisk cruser blade Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	11.1% Very poor	Read 22.3 Write 3.52 Mixed 5.22 10% 10.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.17 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 1.46 134% 2.85 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 11.1% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	62.9% Good	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 22.6 MC Mixed 19.9 61% 21.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 21 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 53.2 75% 53.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 76%

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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 $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	30x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 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: $525

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16