Asus P8Z68-M PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 81.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	9.25% 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	124% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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	Asus P8Z68-M PRO (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130509
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Nov 21 '16 at 23:10
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500 82,538 User benchmarks, average bench 63% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 102 2-Core 205 78% 134 Pts	4-Core 396 8-Core 399 53% 398 Pts	64-Core 398 25% 398 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-$112 69,673 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Asus(1043 8439) 1GB CLim: 1071 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 375.95 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	9.25% Terrible	Lighting 10.4 Reflection 9.54 Parallax 11.8 8% 10.6 fps	MRender 13.8 Gravity 12.3 Splatting 13.3 11% 13.1 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9.25% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 256GB 13,747 User benchmarks, average bench 120% 144GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	124% Outstanding	Read 985 Write 708 Mixed 738 180% 810 MB/s	4K Read 20.8 4K Write 143 4K Mixed 15.7 127% 59.9 MB/s	DQ Read 25 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 79.2 73% 105 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 237%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 77664368 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 553 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1553378 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1204 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 280 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 68 437387289 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4618 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 51539607577 (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 23132693856977 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7020186017 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6226569510	88.7% Excellent	Read 170 Write 140 Mixed 145 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.19 68% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 113%
Seagate Expansion 1TB 3,195 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 863GB free, PID 2312 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	41.5% Average	Read 93.2 Write 99.5 Mixed 74.4 114% 89 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.31 81% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 1,961 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	61.1% Good	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 22.5 MC Mixed 19.9 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 19.2 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 59.7 67% 59.7 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 96%

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

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-M PRO

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	66x
Core i7-2600Intel $194Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	61x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	49x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	28x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	21x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	20x

SSD
840 Evo 120GBSamsung $85Bench 91%, 104,444 samples	28x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	15x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	14x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	13x

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Value: 55% - Above average

Total price: $531

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