Asus P8Z68-V PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 91%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	79.2% 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	47.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V PRO (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 17 '17 at 15:50
Run Duration	206 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 123 2-Core 246 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 496 66% 495 Pts	64-Core 488 30% 488 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4993) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.2% Very good	Lighting 99.8 Reflection 110 Parallax 99.6 81% 103 fps	MRender 92.5 Gravity 93.5 Splatting 89.6 75% 91.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 278GB free Firmware: X35510RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5049 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 937 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12893159515 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 9 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 224 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 49 210454249501 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 64426344476 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2689 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3867 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3453 (F2) Unknown 253 253 24455 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	59.5% Above average	Read 342 Write 168 Mixed 189 51% 233 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 54.3 4K Mixed 19.1 100% 34.6 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 36.1 54% 104 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 107%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 165200859 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 90795608651008 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2576 (AB) Unknown 0 0 4 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 341 (B1) Unknown 0 0 12 (B5) Unknown 0 0 4 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 165200859 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 165200859 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 165200859 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 33228 (EA) Unknown 0 0 31575 (F1) Unknown 0 0 31575 (F2) Unknown 0 0 30009	47.6% Average	Read 192 Write 104 Mixed 121 31% 139 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 74.5 4K Mixed 15.5 97% 38.2 MB/s	DQ Read 139 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 31.9 49% 92.6 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 61%
Corsair Force LS 240GB-$110 4,081 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 37GB free Firmware: S8FM06.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8189 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1667 (A2) Unknown 100 100 4294967474 (AA) Unknown 100 100 223 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 524311 (AE) Unknown 100 100 74 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 74 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1405 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2743	78% Very good	Read 511 Write 379 Mixed 427 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 82.7 4K Mixed 10.4 93% 38.9 MB/s	DQ Read 138 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 26.9 64% 130 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 91%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB-$60 30,974 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 130GB free Firmware: 1AA01110 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 0 (03) Spinup time 76 76 8110 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4495 (05) Reallocated sector count 95 95 238 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 20443 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 99 99 614 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3845 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 55 638713891 (C2) HDA temperature 64 45 672268324 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 110197 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 99 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	39.9% Below average	Read 68.7 Write 70.1 Mixed 76.8 54% 71.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.25 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.2 72% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 60%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 84GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 5 (03) Spinup time 80 80 6830 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4278 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 20587 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3636 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 4 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 16 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 57 504496156 (C2) HDA temperature 72 48 538050588 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 285102 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	37.6% Below average	Read 66.4 Write 64.1 Mixed 67.5 50% 66 MB/s	4K Read 0.25 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.37 90% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	61.4% Good	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 19.4 60% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 17.7 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 52.4 76% 52.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 63%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V PRO - $390

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	702x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	378x
Core i7-2600Intel $192Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	124x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	111x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	99x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	78x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	61x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	54x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	76x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	70x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	67x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $989

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