Asrock Z68 Extreme4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 40% Jet ski


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 78.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	65.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110518
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 27 '17 at 05:07
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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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 i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	78.2% Very good	Memory 93.4 1-Core 95 2-Core 184 74% 124 Pts	4-Core 347 8-Core 463 51% 405 Pts	64-Core 465 29% 465 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3757) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2256 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.4% Good	Lighting 81.7 Reflection 80.3 Parallax 76.5 67% 79.5 fps	MRender 80.7 Gravity 75.8 Splatting 75.9 63% 77.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 319GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 7 (03) Spinup time 176 172 4191 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14779 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 32358 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3810 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 14709 (C2) HDA temperature 106 87 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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 12	52% Above average	Read 81.1 Write 99.9 Mixed 16.6 48% 65.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.31 99% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 76%
WD VelociRaptor 300GB-$90 11,249 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 04.04V01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 205 197 2741 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5416 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 29 29 52316 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5287 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1615 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5418 (C2) HDA temperature 102 91 45 (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 16 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	46.4% Average	Read 79.7 Write 81.4 Mixed 68.7 58% 76.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.53 135% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 46.4% Great: 69%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 9,009 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 390GB free, PID a006 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	31.7% Below average	Read 80 Write 72.5 Mixed 62.3 90% 71.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.18 54% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4GBXL F3-12800CL9-4GBXL F3-12800CL9-4GBXL F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 16GB 517 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	55.9% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 19.8 MC Mixed 17.4 54% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 17.9 48% 17 GB/s	Latency 61.3 65% 61.3 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 61%

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Typical Z68 Extreme4 Builds (Compare 184 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 25%

Raft

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z68 Extreme4 - $150

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	70x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	49x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	21x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	22x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x
HD 3000 (Desktop V2 1.35 GHz)Intel $15Bench 2%, 6,831 samples	10x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	7x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 47,852 samples	4x
HMT451U6AFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 56%, 3,905 samples	4x
CT102464BD160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 53%, 4,052 samples	4x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $628

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 $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