Asus P8Z68-V LX

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 77.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	100% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	47.1% 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 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.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V LX (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '18 at 20:58
Run Duration	220 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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 (85^th percentile)	77.5% Very good	Memory 94.6 1-Core 99.2 2-Core 200 77% 131 Pts	4-Core 328 8-Core 513 52% 420 Pts	64-Core 510 32% 510 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Asus(1043 8620) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 153 Parallax 77.3 108% 121 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 97.1 Splatting 115 86% 103 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 14354315 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 15865609197405 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3646 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 268 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (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 14354315 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 14354315 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 14354315 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7934 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9466 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9466 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14276	47.1% Average	Read 191 Write 94.6 Mixed 112 29% 133 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 94.5 4K Mixed 12 100% 43.1 MB/s	DQ Read 130 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 33.6 47% 87.9 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47.1% Great: 61%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$67 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 434GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 153824472 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1756 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 9440415 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3139 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1760 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295098370 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 65 40 206763393059 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 78 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16467 (C2) HDA temperature 35 60 34359738403 (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 -107374182397984 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11767023987 (F2) Unknown 100 253 31049830149	84.4% Excellent	Read 158 Write 136 Mixed 127 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.19 83% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 113%
Maxtor 6V320F0 320GB 601 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 126GB free Firmware: VA11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 187 185 17042 (04) Start/Stop count 253 253 915 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 250 237 64847 (09) Power-on hours count 180 180 25514 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 253 253 239 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 35 688980008 (C0) Power-off retract count 253 253 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 253 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 252 1121 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 161 1 12125 (C8) Write error rate 253 252 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 252 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 252 0 (CB) Run out cancel 253 252 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 253 252 0 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 253 252 0 (CF) Spin high current 253 252 0 (D0) Spin buzz 253 252 0 (D2) Unknown 253 252 0 (D3) Unknown 253 252 0 (D4) Unknown 253 1 0	31.4% Below average	Read 50.9 Write 57.2 Mixed 57.1 42% 55.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 5.05 4K Mixed 0.48 163% 1.98 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 31.4% Great: 38%
Seagate ST9160821AS 160GB-$60 3,340 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 101GB free Firmware: 3.AL Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4275 (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 167 (07) Seek error rate 63 58 279292746514 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4088 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4921 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1922 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 1216 (BE) vendor-specific 75 36 420544537 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 4006 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 47993 (C2) HDA temperature 25 64 47244640281 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 72 49 63163128 (C5) Current pending sector count 93 92 151 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 93 92 151 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	24.5% Poor	Read 42.5 Write 43 Mixed 41 32% 42.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 0.6 4K Mixed 0.3 62% 0.44 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 24.5% Great: 24%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 82GB free Firmware: JP4O Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 98 98 65540 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 97 (03) Spinup time 121 121 25790644534 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5148 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 132 132 34 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 9807 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4590 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5171 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5171 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 266288431133 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2	47.1% Average	Read 83.2 Write 80.9 Mixed 74.2 60% 79.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.35 83% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 47.1% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 19,522 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	58.9% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 21.3 MC Mixed 18.5 58% 20.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 18.2 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 58.3 69% 58.3 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 63%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V LX

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	487x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	424x
Core i7-2600Intel $187Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	195x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	133x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	123x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	103x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	71x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	44x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	66x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	54x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	52x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $333

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16