Asus P8Z68-V

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76% 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	49.4% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

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Run History

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 12 '17 at 01:07
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 97.7 1-Core 122 2-Core 239 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 636 66% 532 Pts	64-Core 636 39% 636 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76% Very good	Lighting 115 Reflection 120 Parallax 109 94% 115 fps	MRender 32.6 Gravity 69.5 Splatting 50 42% 50.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 6349878 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 -50886772518428 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2460 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 586 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 38 1009319804958 (C2) HDA temperature 30 38 1009319804958 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6349878 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6349878 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6349878 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6815 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3356 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3356 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6362	49.4% Average	Read 419 Write 104 Mixed 159 49% 227 MB/s	4K Read 17 4K Write 58.4 4K Mixed 14.1 75% 29.8 MB/s	DQ Read 73.7 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 28.2 40% 72.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 73%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 736GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 113838680 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1944 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13114010 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4302 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2371 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 60 488243229 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 170 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5585 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 64424509469 (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 24339579675909 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2518644292 (F2) Unknown 100 253 424679906769	84.5% Excellent	Read 135 Write 159 Mixed 115 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 5.31 4K Mixed 0.65 196% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GB 17,012 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 23.6 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 21.6 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 23.2 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 47.5 84% 47.5 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 73%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V - $390

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	247x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	243x
Core i7-2600Intel $187Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	82x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	61x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	58x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	53x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	28x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	28x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	24x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	19x

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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