Asus P8Z68-V GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.4% 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	54.8% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110916
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 22 '17 at 05:30
Run Duration	241 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^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% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 96.4 1-Core 112 2-Core 227 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 450 60% 449 Pts	64-Core 450 28% 450 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 79%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3703) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 113 Parallax 95.8 89% 106 fps	MRender 97.1 Gravity 99.3 Splatting 99.1 81% 98.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 88%
Intel HD 3000 (Desktop V1 1.1 GHz) 8,807 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Asus(1043 844D) 2GB Driver: igdumd64.dll Ver. 9.17.10.4459 Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	1.95% Terrible	Lighting 2.13 Reflection 3.35 Parallax 1.44 2% 2.31 fps	MRender 3.19 Gravity 1.17 Splatting 3.96 2% 2.77 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 1.95% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: 010G Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14501 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1765 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 84 84 493 (AE) Unknown 100 100 71 (B5) Unknown 100 100 13310175807438 (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 80 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2372 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 84 84 16 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	54.8% Above average	Read 480 Write 165 Mixed 273 67% 306 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 71.6 4K Mixed 5.38 73% 31.8 MB/s	DQ Read 135 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 7.55 36% 82.6 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 72%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 361GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 49448129 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1609 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 7 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 12892657441 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1426 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 429 (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 72 61 622592028 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 55834574876 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 16 49448129 (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 -22836341109193 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3964150999 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1946562955	53.8% Above average	Read 90.9 Write 96.5 Mixed 73.3 65% 86.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.53 118% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 68%
Seagate ST500DM005 HD502HJ 500GB 10,272 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 33GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 83 82 5277 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3871 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11947 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1807 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 62 163209609247 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 7 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3907	58.6% Above average	Read 110 Write 94 Mixed 96 75% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.47 4K Mixed 0.48 120% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 77%
WD My Passport 0820 1TB 16,483 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 873GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	15.7% Very poor	Read 31.9 Write 26.2 Mixed 25.2 35% 27.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.25 68% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 15.7% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4GBRL F3-12800CL8-4GBXM F3-12800CL9-4GBRL F3-12800CL8-4GBXM 16GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.9% Good	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 19.5 59% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 20.3 SC Mixed 19.8 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 52.6 76% 52.6 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 61%

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

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V GEN3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	251x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	198x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	63x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	60x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	30x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	41x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	29x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $526

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