Asus P8Z68-V LX

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 72.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	35.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V LX (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 29 '21 at 21:47
Run Duration	250 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770K-$175 165,979 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	Memory 82 1-Core 102 2-Core 204 74% 129 Pts	4-Core 338 8-Core 510 53% 424 Pts	64-Core 507 31% 507 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-$143 230,793 User benchmarks, average bench 68% Gigabyte(1458 3FC8) CLim: 2145 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 496.76 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	60.8% Good	Lighting 75.5 Reflection 99.7 Parallax 65.7 62% 80.3 fps	MRender 65.4 Gravity 79.5 Splatting 72.4 59% 72.4 fps
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 73%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 480GB-$38 237,487 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 299GB free (System drive) Firmware: S3401103 SusWrite @10s intervals: 113 223 121 14 14 77 MB/s Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	35.4% Below average	Read 250 Write 24.7 Mixed 53.1 SusWrite 93.6 23% 105 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 15.6 4K Mixed 10.3 55% 16.1 MB/s	DQ Read 128 DQ Write 25.1 DQ Mixed 34.9 36% 62.5 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 35.4% Great: 102%
Seagate Barracuda 8TB (2017)-$108 42,465 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 6TB free Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 166 172 181 179 172 182 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Read 119 Write 128 Mixed 68 SusWrite 175 90% 123 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 0.8 239% 2.43 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 90%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 545GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 SusWrite @10s intervals: 94 91 95 95 95 95 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	51.4% Above average	Read 84.5 Write 99 Mixed 51 SusWrite 94.3 60% 82.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.8 147% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 435GB free Firmware: HP73 SusWrite @10s intervals: 131 133 136 135 136 136 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	75.8% Very good	Read 130 Write 76.9 Mixed 64.1 SusWrite 134 74% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.7 126% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 88%
SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 16GB-$8 10,598 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 13GB free, PID 5591 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 8.3 7.6 6.6 7.1 4.2 4.9 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	12.8% Very poor	Read 31.4 Write 17.2 Mixed 20.6 SusWrite 6.4 23% 18.9 MB/s	4K Read 4.5 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 1.5 132% 2.63 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 12.8% Great: 32%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 20,667 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	49.2% Average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 16.9 MC Mixed 15.2 48% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 17.3 SC Mixed 16.6 47% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 76.9 52% 76.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 77%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V LX

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	486x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	422x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	195x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	133x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	122x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	103x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	71x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	44x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	65x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	54x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	52x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $333

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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