Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 84.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.8% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

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Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150115
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 12 '16 at 23:05
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Memory 94.6 1-Core 118 2-Core 237 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 461 59% 446 Pts	64-Core 458 28% 458 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.19 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.8% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 107 Parallax 94.7 83% 101 fps	MRender 95.4 Gravity 96.2 Splatting 97.6 79% 96.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 215GB free Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5147973 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -1065151885537 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1274 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 170 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 23 33 47246802967 (C2) HDA temperature 23 33 47246802967 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5147973 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5147973 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5147973 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1855 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1371 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1371 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1564	73% Very good	Read 511 Write 239 Mixed 278 75% 343 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 69.8 4K Mixed 13.4 96% 37 MB/s	DQ Read 252 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 87.3 106% 186 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 704GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 7571912 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1211 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 157551812 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4009 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1211 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 66 437780506 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 90 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1369 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 38654705690 (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 54387170873288 (F1) Unknown 100 253 31028589794 (F2) Unknown 100 253 286754883536	100% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 158 Mixed 161 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.22 82% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C9D3/4GX KHX1600C9D3/4GX 16GB 282 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	59.3% Above average	MC Read 20.1 MC Write 21.8 MC Mixed 19.2 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 19.5 SC Mixed 17.1 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 58.1 69% 58.1 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 60%

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Gaming 38%

Jet ski

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 - $390

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	434x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	319x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	174x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	105x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	93x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	83x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	49x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	49x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	95x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	59x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	55x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $1,003

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16