Asrock Z68 Professional Gen3

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 79.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	51.2% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Professional Gen3 (all builds)
Memory	3.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110815
Uptime	2.8 Days
Run Date	Jul 16 '17 at 01:25
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2700K-$89 20,692 User benchmarks, average bench 73% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	Memory 93.6 1-Core 108 2-Core 204 79% 135 Pts	4-Core 357 8-Core 533 55% 445 Pts	64-Core 501 31% 501 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	63.5% Good	Lighting 79.8 Reflection 85.2 Parallax 75 65% 80 fps	MRender 80.3 Gravity 75.4 Splatting 68.5 60% 74.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 151GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5064 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 260 (A5) Unknown 100 100 163265774089 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 29 (A8) Unknown 100 100 10 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 42 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 40 171799805992 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2405186929200 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1518 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10629 (F1) Unknown 253 253 6261 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3672 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	51.2% Above average	Read 370 Write 240 Mixed 189 59% 266 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 45.3 4K Mixed 8.91 69% 25.4 MB/s	DQ Read 22.3 DQ Write 71.9 DQ Mixed 9.55 18% 34.6 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 108%
WD WD2001FASS-00U0B0 2TB 6,005 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.00101 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 5 (03) Spinup time 153 151 14341 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3569 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29515 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 519 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 180 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 176 176 73431 (C2) HDA temperature 108 102 44 (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 16	80.5% Excellent	Read 149 Write 131 Mixed 74.6 87% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 3.07 4K Mixed 0.31 130% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-17000CL9-4GBSR F3-17000CL9-4GBSR F3-17000CL9-4GBSR F3-17000CL9-4GBSR 16GB 31 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	54.3% Above average	MC Read 18.9 MC Write 18.8 MC Mixed 17 52% 18.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 17.5 49% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 60.7 66% 60.7 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 80%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical Z68 Professional Gen3 Builds (Compare 152 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 38%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z68 Professional Gen3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	48x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	28x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	15x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	13x
HD 3000 (Desktop V2 1.35 GHz)Intel $15Bench 2%, 6,831 samples	11x

SSD
870 EVO 1TBSamsung $89Bench 112%, 129,044 samples	11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x
850 Pro 256GBSamsung $115Bench 102%, 141,929 samples	6x

RAM
CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMY16GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMY16GX3M2A1600C9 24GBUnknownBench 54%, 50 samples	5x
CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 16GBCorsairBench 49%, 430 samples	5x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	4x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $608

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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