Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 31% Sail boat	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (34th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 66 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 80.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	31.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	82.3% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 9 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.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors, 1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150115
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '16 at 05:16
Run Duration	405 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	80.4% Excellent	Memory 96.4 1-Core 101 2-Core 202 78% 133 Pts	4-Core 349 8-Core 515 54% 432 Pts	64-Core 518 32% 518 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 83%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% Asus(1043 0464) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.300.2311.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	31.7% Below average	Lighting 40.3 Reflection 36.2 Parallax 48.4 33% 41.6 fps	MRender 31.6 Gravity 33.5 Splatting 40.6 29% 35.2 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 29%
Intel HD 3000 (Desktop V2 1.35 GHz)-$15 6,831 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Asus(1043 844D) 2GB Driver: igdumd64.dll Ver. 9.17.10.4229 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	1.38% Terrible	Lighting 2.57 Reflection 3.96 Parallax 1.72 2% 2.75 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 1.38% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 93GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM04B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12259 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2294 (B1) Unknown 94 94 215 (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 66 59 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 265 (F1) Unknown 99 99 36263139111	82.3% Excellent	Read 516 Write 350 Mixed 350 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 67.4 4K Mixed 21 109% 39.6 MB/s	DQ Read 214 DQ Write 158 DQ Mixed 20.7 60% 131 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 116%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 82289768 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5515 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 14647845 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11150 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2455 (B7) Unknown 32 32 68 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 81 12885098534 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 49 622460963 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1423 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 66315 (C2) HDA temperature 35 51 85899345955 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 388 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -58699318031208 (F1) Unknown 100 253 32846098443497 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5514478431096
Poor: 56% Great: 113%
Seagate NAS HDD 4TB-$145 4,962 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 1.5TB free Firmware: SC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 100 111358048 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4268 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2265706 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6594 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1550 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 54 588775456 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 758 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4269 (C2) HDA temperature 32 46 81604378656 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 7	71.7% Very good	Read 135 Write 115 Mixed 55 75% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.13 60% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 100%
WD Green 2TB (2010)-$100 5,498 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1.5TB free Firmware: 50.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 164 160 6758 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3240 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5660 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1456 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 889 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 30557 (C2) HDA temperature 120 107 30 (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	38.9% Below average	Read 87.2 Write 48.5 Mixed 68.3 51% 68 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 0.38 4K Mixed 0.16 53% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 68%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 842GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	37.6% Below average	Read 83.5 Write 47.1 Mixed 58.9 48% 63.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.21 89% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 693GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	37.3% Below average	Read 82.1 Write 46.3 Mixed 40.1 42% 56.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 5.55 4K Mixed 0.35 156% 2.08 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 37.3% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 535GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 93 184541667 (03) Spinup time 100 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4414 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 43250229 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9194 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 22 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2136 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 625 (BC) Unknown 100 73 131102 (BD) vendor-specific 16 16 84 (BE) vendor-specific 61 47 706281511 (C2) HDA temperature 39 53 73014444071 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 29 184541667 (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 -130863358533402 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2007222054 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1812448212	40.8% Average	Read 69.8 Write 72.5 Mixed 56.6 50% 66.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.27 64% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 70%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 431GB free Firmware: 12.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	35.4% Below average	Read 70.9 Write 51.8 Mixed 60.3 46% 61 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.3 102% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 35.4% Great: 69%
WD WD10EACS-00ZJB0 1TB 28,352 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 112GB free Firmware: 01.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 178 7983 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3279 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6175 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1612 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 689 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 192 192 26127 (C2) HDA temperature 114 104 38 (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	28.3% Poor	Read 42.9 Write 55.3 Mixed 45.9 36% 48 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.37 90% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 28.3% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	65.2% Good	MC Read 23 MC Write 23.6 MC Mixed 20.7 64% 22.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 18.7 SC Mixed 19.1 54% 18.8 GB/s	Latency 52.5 76% 52.5 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 88%

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Gaming 38%

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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	318x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	173x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	104x
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 $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	48x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	95x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	58x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	55x

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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