Asrock Z68 Professional Gen3

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	131% 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	41% 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.

Very high background CPU (68%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Professional Gen3 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 15 '21 at 21:24
Run Duration	189 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	68%

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PC Performing below expectations (40^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	73.4% Very good	Memory 90.6 1-Core 94 2-Core 174 71% 119 Pts	4-Core 305 8-Core 449 47% 377 Pts	64-Core 466 29% 466 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti-$340 442,467 User benchmarks, average bench 128% MSI(1462 3973) CLim: 2115 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 496.13 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	131% Outstanding	Lighting 184 Reflection 172 Parallax 165 150% 174 fps	MRender 187 Gravity 137 Splatting 117 117% 147 fps
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 136%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 750GB-$85 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 64GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR011 SusWrite @10s intervals: 66 62 65 60 66 67 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	41% Average	Read 291 Write 354 Mixed 255 SusWrite 64.3 54% 241 MB/s	4K Read 10.2 4K Write 43.9 4K Mixed 25.6 72% 26.6 MB/s	DQ Read 22.7 DQ Write 83.1 DQ Mixed 33.4 31% 46.4 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 104%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 172GB free Firmware: 12.01C01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 59 62 60 61 61 62 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	36% Below average	Read 64.1 Write 62.4 Mixed 43.5 SusWrite 60.7 42% 57.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1 185% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 69%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$44 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1.5TB free Firmware: 20.04F20 SusWrite @10s intervals: 66 66 67 66 68 67 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	38.9% Below average	Read 68.6 Write 65.5 Mixed 54.4 SusWrite 66.5 47% 63.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.9 172% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 76%
WD Purple 3TB (2014)-$85 6,631 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 330GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 84 84 83 84 85 85 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	65.1% Good	Read 142 Write 143 Mixed 64.4 SusWrite 84.2 79% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1 190% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4GBSR2 F3-12800CL9-4GBSR2 F3-12800CL9-4GBSR2 F3-12800CL9-4GBSR2 16GB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	56.7% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 20.6 MC Mixed 18.2 56% 19.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 16.9 SC Mixed 18.3 49% 17.2 GB/s	Latency 66.4 60% 66.4 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 61%

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

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z68 Professional Gen3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	48x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	28x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	15x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	13x
HD 3000 (Desktop V2 1.35 GHz)Intel $15Bench 2%, 6,831 samples	11x

SSD
870 EVO 1TBSamsung $100Bench 112%, 129,044 samples	11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x
850 Pro 256GBSamsung $129Bench 102%, 141,929 samples	6x

RAM
CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMY16GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMY16GX3M2A1600C9 24GBUnknownBench 54%, 50 samples	5x
CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 16GBCorsairBench 49%, 430 samples	5x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	4x

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Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $619

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $95	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16