Asus P8Z68-V LE

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	94.4% 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	66.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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 (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V LE (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130909
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '17 at 07:58
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	31%

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PC Performing as expected (58^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 above expectations (71^st percentile)	73.5% Very good	Memory 84.1 1-Core 111 2-Core 196 75% 130 Pts	4-Core 340 8-Core 491 52% 416 Pts	64-Core 553 34% 553 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 122 Parallax 106 100% 117 fps	MRender 96.5 Gravity 103 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 88%
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 n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 2% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD340 128GB-$88 2,082 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: SVN423b Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 7630 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1666 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1703936 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 183 183 1206912679991 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 120 (C2) HDA temperature 71 71 124555493405 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 72447909632 (EA) Unknown 100 100 136598669760 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 19691905440 (F2) Unknown 100 100 19984424899	66.6% Good	Read 493 Write 158 Mixed 231 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 62.7 4K Mixed 19.1 97% 36 MB/s	DQ Read 232 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 24.1 63% 135 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 84%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 89GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 175 5783 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3755 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14956 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2886 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1141 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2613 (C2) HDA temperature 122 103 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	61.3% Good	Read 110 Write 104 Mixed 90.4 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 88%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 59GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 133111120 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1436 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 70485593 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7343 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1506 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 86 184686411825 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 60 504561693 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10269 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 55834574877 (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 -105656195471466 (F1) Unknown 100 253 51940023121 (F2) Unknown 100 253 861301417818	77.4% Very good	Read 104 Write 164 Mixed 87.3 88% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 5.47 4K Mixed 0.58 186% 2.18 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-054.A00LF 9905474-037.A00LF 99U5471-054.A00LF 9905474-037.A00LF 24GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	52.4% Above average	MC Read 18.8 MC Write 19.2 MC Mixed 16.6 52% 18.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 16.9 SC Mixed 15.5 44% 15.4 GB/s	Latency 73.2 55% 73.2 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 52.4% Great: 54%

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

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V LE

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	183x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	132x
Core i7-2600Intel $195Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	58x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	40x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	39x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	34x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	20x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	20x
870 EVO 500GBSamsung $58Bench 104%, 60,851 samples	15x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	16x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	14x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $443

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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