Asrock Z68 Professional Gen3

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	21.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	44.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Professional Gen3 (all builds)
Memory	3.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120607
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 31 '17 at 19:22
Run Duration	283 Seconds
Run User	JPN-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 93.6 1-Core 110 2-Core 218 81% 140 Pts	4-Core 388 8-Core 428 54% 408 Pts	64-Core 427 26% 427 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 3000 (Desktop V1 1.1 GHz) 8,807 User benchmarks, average bench 2% ASRock(1849 0112) 2GB Driver: igdumd64.dll Ver. 9.17.10.4459 Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	1.9% Terrible	Lighting 2.07 Reflection 3.23 Parallax 1.41 2% 2.23 fps	MRender 3.14 Gravity 1.13 Splatting 3.83 2% 2.7 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 1.9% Great: 2%
Nvidia GTX 570-$350 22,303 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 8387) 1.2GB CLim: 742 MHz, MLim: 950 MHz, Ram: 1.2GB, Driver: 369.9 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	21.1% Poor	Lighting 24.8 Reflection 38.5 Parallax 28.2 20% 30.5 fps	MRender 38.9 Gravity 20.5 Splatting 26 23% 28.5 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.1% Great: 22%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Pyro 120GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 75GB free Firmware: 502ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 115 105886797 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 54735063255564 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 265 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 106 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 39 48 73017589799 (C2) HDA temperature 39 48 73017589799 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 105886797 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 105886797 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 105886797 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 832 (EA) Unknown 0 0 693 (F1) Unknown 0 0 693 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2942	39% Below average	Read 214 Write 120 Mixed 165 37% 166 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 45.2 4K Mixed 9.54 72% 26.1 MB/s	DQ Read 29.4 DQ Write 83.6 DQ Mixed 11.4 22% 41.5 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 39% Great: 75%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q 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 91 91 41432 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 267 (B1) Unknown 86 86 482 (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 62 55 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 83 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29377662309	44.8% Average	Read 386 Write 179 Mixed 223 58% 263 MB/s	4K Read 17 4K Write 35.4 4K Mixed 10 57% 20.8 MB/s	DQ Read 22.1 DQ Write 50.7 DQ Mixed 9.77 15% 27.5 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 76%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$93 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 181 5875 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 19 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5134 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 19 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7750 (C2) HDA temperature 116 110 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	68% Good	Read 120 Write 117 Mixed 93.7 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.34 4K Mixed 0.27 96% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 88%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$54 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 164 148 10766 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 203 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 28071 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 203 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 37 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 165 (C2) HDA temperature 105 98 47 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	51.8% Above average	Read 103 Write 77.7 Mixed 83.9 66% 88.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.18 57% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 112%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$60 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 803GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 198 198 19325 (03) Spinup time 172 170 4400 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2524 (05) Reallocated sector count 189 189 88 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 19 19 59296 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 642 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 213 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2310 (C2) HDA temperature 100 92 47 (C4) Reallocation count 118 118 82 (C5) Current pending sector count 199 195 243 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 199 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (C8) Write error rate 196 1 896	69% Good	Read 128 Write 112 Mixed 25.5 64% 88.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.43 129% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 76%
SAMSUNG HD103UJ 1TB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 337GB free, PID 8561 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	44.8% Average	Read 101 Write 105 Mixed 76.5 120% 94.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.44 96% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 45%
WDC WD32 00BEKT-60F3T1 320GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 298GB free, PID 8561 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	34.1% Below average	Read 78.9 Write 75.4 Mixed 66.6 94% 73.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.32 80% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 34.1% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 16,472 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	59.5% Above average	MC Read 21 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 17.9 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 19.2 52% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 60.7 66% 60.7 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 63%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 78%

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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 $278Bench 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 $125Bench 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 i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16