Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	10.6% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	80.5% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	21.4 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150115
Uptime	5.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 18 '17 at 02:54
Run Duration	299 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 96 1-Core 115 2-Core 229 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 458 60% 451 Pts	64-Core 459 28% 459 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% EVGA(3842 1557) 1GB CLim: 981 MHz, MLim: 1128 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	10.6% Very poor	Lighting 11.9 Reflection 14 Parallax 10.1 10% 12 fps	MRender 16.6 Gravity 12.4 Splatting 16.3 12% 15.1 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 10.6% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 388GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1945 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 296 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 65 54 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 49 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3517528373	52% Above average	Read 326 Write 186 Mixed 221 54% 244 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 40.3 4K Mixed 17.4 87% 28.7 MB/s	DQ Read 29.6 DQ Write 53.3 DQ Mixed 44.9 33% 42.6 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 134%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 124GB free Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4772676 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 14688788157047 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 446 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 73 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 35 81606672415 (C2) HDA temperature 31 35 81606672415 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4772676 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4772676 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4772676 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 203 (EA) Unknown 0 0 244 (F1) Unknown 0 0 244 (F2) Unknown 0 0 976	73.8% Very good	Read 511 Write 329 Mixed 395 91% 412 MB/s	4K Read 18.9 4K Write 56.2 4K Mixed 13.8 76% 29.7 MB/s	DQ Read 214 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 10.4 73% 166 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 85%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 121GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1887 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 282 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 65 58 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4844098609	80.5% Excellent	Read 518 Write 419 Mixed 419 100% 452 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 68.5 4K Mixed 20.8 108% 39.6 MB/s	DQ Read 37.4 DQ Write 69.3 DQ Mixed 115 70% 73.8 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 124%
OCZ VERTEX3 60GB 3,574 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 56GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 2557450 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 -69380901687792 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 976 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 84 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2557450 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2557450 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2557450 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4441 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3629 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3629 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6475	41.7% Average	Read 338 Write 77.8 Mixed 120 39% 178 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 45.5 4K Mixed 11.4 70% 26 MB/s	DQ Read 48.5 DQ Write 80.9 DQ Mixed 7.37 22% 45.6 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 41.7% Great: 70%
WD WD1500ADFD-00NLR1 150GB 1,859 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 90GB free Firmware: 20.07P20 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 162 161 4908 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4833 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18780 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1760 (C2) HDA temperature 106 96 41 (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 200 253 4 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	38.2% Below average	Read 60.7 Write 71.9 Mixed 64.3 50% 65.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.55 135% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 47%
WD My Book 1140 1TB 1,745 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 741GB free, PID 1140 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	41.6% Average	Read 105 Write 94.1 Mixed 94.7 124% 98.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.15 69% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 48%
WDC WD16 00BB-00GUC0 160GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 69GB free, PID 007e Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	14% Very poor	Read 28.8 Write 23.5 Mixed 24.8 32% 25.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.3 63% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 14% Great: 16%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ16GX3M2A1600C9 8502 1600LL Series 029E CMZ16GX3M2A1600C9 8502 1600LL Series 24GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	63.3% Good	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 20 61% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 20.3 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 54 74% 54 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 63%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 31%

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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 $109Bench 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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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $1,018

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