Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

Performance Results


Gaming 100% UFO	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 83% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 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 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 79.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	128% 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	72.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 (all builds)
Memory	8.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120629
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 15 '18 at 22:35
Run Duration	231 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing below expectations (39^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	Memory 92.2 1-Core 108 2-Core 208 79% 136 Pts	4-Core 364 8-Core 561 57% 462 Pts	64-Core 557 34% 557 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2802 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	128% Outstanding	Lighting 179 Reflection 189 Parallax 191 146% 186 fps	MRender 121 Gravity 175 Splatting 120 112% 139 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 94GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12988 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 95 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 65 58 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3521963491	97.4% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 413 Mixed 416 99% 447 MB/s	4K Read 39.4 4K Write 75.2 4K Mixed 40.2 151% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 41.4 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 91.7 79% 111 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 68GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 32099 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 371 (B1) Unknown 82 82 210 (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 56 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 294 (F1) Unknown 99 99 94649449181	72.8% Very good	Read 500 Write 340 Mixed 345 88% 395 MB/s	4K Read 35 4K Write 47.5 4K Mixed 17.1 100% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 36.5 DQ Write 88.8 DQ Mixed 9.09 22% 44.8 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 563GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 90 211168210 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 767 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34687098095 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 40168 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 432 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 912 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 55 55 45 (BE) vendor-specific 69 46 17768644639 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 342 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 71 71 59420 (C2) HDA temperature 31 54 -140737488355297 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 99 72 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 99 72 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -136472585799319 (F1) Unknown 100 253 59682352200 (F2) Unknown 100 253 76848590578	76.2% Very good	Read 136 Write 130 Mixed 129 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.3 75% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 419GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 123496656 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 212 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 13646614543 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 30531 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 202 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 52 639107105 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 165 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 45 45 111234 (C2) HDA temperature 33 48 90194313249 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -35777077556708 (F1) Unknown 100 253 105532939380 (F2) Unknown 100 253 56193496258	85.3% Excellent	Read 135 Write 163 Mixed 146 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.28 71% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 114%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 229GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 140 140 34387263885 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 540 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 40211 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 530 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1917 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1917 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 188979937315 (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 200 200 0	62.3% Good	Read 96.6 Write 121 Mixed 108 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.19 75% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 107%
WD Black 640GB (2008)-$25 19,988 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 63GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 234 228 8275 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4671 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 14 14 63146 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2218 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 694 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4658 (C2) HDA temperature 112 103 38 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	48.6% Average	Read 88.2 Write 80.8 Mixed 72.6 60% 80.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.55 125% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 48.6% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C8 4x4GB 1,744 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.5% Above average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 16.5 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 16.6 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 52.5% Great: 64%

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

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	344x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	119x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	50x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	56x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	54x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	47x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	20x

RAM
Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 52%, 16,472 samples	14x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	12x
CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBCorsairBench 48%, 1,087 samples	12x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $463

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 $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16