Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.6% 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	37.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 (all builds)
Memory	5.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110729
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 27 '16 at 09:27
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.8% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 120 2-Core 236 86% 150 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 469 60% 454 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7254 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 118 Parallax 101 93% 111 fps	MRender 99 Gravity 104 Splatting 102 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 287GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 163 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 24 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 73 64 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 551640628	66.6% Good	Read 374 Write 304 Mixed 270 70% 316 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 67.5 4K Mixed 19.4 102% 38.2 MB/s	DQ Read 34.4 DQ Write 94.1 DQ Mixed 18.8 28% 49.1 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT08B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3277 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 808 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (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 70 59 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 1 1 4294967280 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4066380821	37.9% Below average	Read 337 Write 65.1 Mixed 72.3 34% 158 MB/s	4K Read 18.2 4K Write 51.6 4K Mixed 7.47 64% 25.7 MB/s	DQ Read 21.6 DQ Write 73.2 DQ Mixed 8.62 18% 34.5 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 37.9% Great: 73%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 418GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 167 4425 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1785 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6457 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1387 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 53 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1731 (C2) HDA temperature 120 102 27 (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	60.3% Good	Read 109 Write 101 Mixed 70.2 70% 93.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.37 103% 1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL8-4GBXM F3-12800CL8-4GBXM 8GB 112 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	60.9% Good	MC Read 21.1 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 18.8 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 20.9 SC Mixed 18.8 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 62%

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Gaming 40%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	342x
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	46x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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 $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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