Asus P8Z68-V PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.1% 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	35.7% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V PRO (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 12 '17 at 20:39
Run Duration	202 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing as expected (56^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)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 95.2 1-Core 114 2-Core 229 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 462 61% 459 Pts	64-Core 457 28% 457 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4993) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (49^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.1% Very good	Lighting 98.8 Reflection 108 Parallax 99 80% 102 fps	MRender 87.9 Gravity 91.8 Splatting 88.9 73% 89.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 337GB free Firmware: X35510RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4970 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 923 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12892569685 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 9 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 222 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 49 210454249506 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 60131377180 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2513 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3600 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3196 (F2) Unknown 253 253 24315 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	47.7% Average	Read 332 Write 171 Mixed 132 46% 212 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 33.8 4K Mixed 13.4 60% 21.3 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 90 DQ Mixed 39.8 54% 102 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 107%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 82GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.3.3 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 69 69 6294056 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 42889543431344 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2562 (AB) Unknown 0 0 4 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 341 (B1) Unknown 0 0 12 (B5) Unknown 0 0 4 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6294056 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6294056 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6294056 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 32923 (EA) Unknown 0 0 31250 (F1) Unknown 0 0 31250 (F2) Unknown 0 0 29645	35.7% Below average	Read 188 Write 107 Mixed 113 30% 136 MB/s	4K Read 15.5 4K Write 35.6 4K Mixed 10.4 56% 20.5 MB/s	DQ Read 124 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 35.1 49% 89.8 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 35.7% Great: 61%
Corsair Force LS 240GB-$110 4,081 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 37GB free Firmware: S8FM06.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8112 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1653 (A2) Unknown 100 100 4294967474 (AA) Unknown 100 100 223 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 524311 (AE) Unknown 100 100 73 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 73 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1399 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2741	68.9% Good	Read 508 Write 377 Mixed 419 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 16.3 4K Write 46.6 4K Mixed 8.89 61% 23.9 MB/s	DQ Read 139 DQ Write 226 DQ Mixed 27.1 64% 131 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 91%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB-$60 30,974 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 57GB free Firmware: 1AA01110 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 81 81 6690 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4481 (05) Reallocated sector count 95 95 238 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 20363 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 99 99 613 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3831 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 56 555548705 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 605880356 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 30350 (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 99 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	40.7% Average	Read 78.7 Write 62.6 Mixed 68.5 53% 69.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.27 88% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 60%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 33GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 5 (03) Spinup time 81 81 6590 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4264 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 20508 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3622 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 4 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 16 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 59 505151518 (C2) HDA temperature 67 55 555483169 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 355395 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	58.6% Above average	Read 99.9 Write 104 Mixed 95.5 75% 99.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.4 99% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	63.1% Good	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 20.5 62% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 19.8 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 56.5 71% 56.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 63%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V PRO - $390

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	700x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	377x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	124x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	111x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	99x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	78x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	61x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	54x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	76x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	70x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	67x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $989

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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