Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	54.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	69.1% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120629
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 18 '17 at 17:39
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 119 2-Core 239 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 472 63% 473 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gainward(10B0 13C2) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	54.9% Above average	Lighting 69.1 Reflection 70.9 Parallax 64.1 56% 68 fps	MRender 74.6 Gravity 64 Splatting 55.8 52% 64.8 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZ7TD256HAFV-000L7 256GB 6,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 38GB free Firmware: DXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3853 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 892 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 97 97 33 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 6240 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 30 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 5 (E9) Unknown 199 199 118936 (EA) Unknown 99 99 5 (EB) Unknown 99 99 175 (EC) Unknown 99 99 17 (ED) Unknown 99 99 33 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0	66.6% Good	Read 496 Write 135 Mixed 126 54% 252 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 65.3 4K Mixed 14 95% 35.8 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 133 DQ Mixed 31.7 81% 179 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 80%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: 526A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 19185034 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 -101893804119166 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1913 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 505 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 54 51543146524 (C2) HDA temperature 28 54 51543146524 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 19185034 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 19185034 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 19185034 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10069 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4895 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4895 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10119	69.1% Good	Read 507 Write 167 Mixed 228 66% 300 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 63.9 4K Mixed 19.9 103% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 208 DQ Write 167 DQ Mixed 50.3 75% 142 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 87%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 91GB free Firmware: 19.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 139 3891 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4082 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15501 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2308 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 374 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3708 (C2) HDA temperature 111 86 32 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 81 81 13972 (F1) Unknown 200 200 26395716042 (F2) Unknown 200 200 83958523086	65.9% Good	Read 115 Write 114 Mixed 113 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.4 94% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 69%
WD Elements 1TB 51,914 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 102GB free, PID 10b8 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	30.8% Below average	Read 72.4 Write 71.9 Mixed 60.2 87% 68.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.2 59% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 30.8% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B1G73DB0-CK0 2x8GB 9,947 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	61.7% Good	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 19.3 60% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 19.2 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 60%

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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	342x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	118x
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 $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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