Asus P8Z68-V LX

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 84.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	67.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	81.8% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V LX (all builds)
Memory	3.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Dec 26 '17 at 15:05
Run Duration	209 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Memory 97.4 1-Core 116 2-Core 219 84% 144 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 581 60% 482 Pts	64-Core 584 36% 584 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	67.6% Good	Lighting 86.1 Reflection 82.9 Parallax 71.8 70% 80.3 fps	MRender 73.6 Gravity 76.3 Splatting 78.4 63% 76.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 111GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 48790828498908 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1995 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 107 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (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 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9863 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8948 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8948 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13048	50.7% Above average	Read 191 Write 109 Mixed 121 31% 140 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 93.7 4K Mixed 13.7 108% 44.8 MB/s	DQ Read 137 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 9.87 38% 84.7 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 61%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6611 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1735 (B1) Unknown 90 90 119 (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 72 63 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29352423812	81.8% Excellent	Read 502 Write 354 Mixed 339 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 42.5 4K Write 69.6 4K Mixed 21 128% 44.4 MB/s	DQ Read 45.5 DQ Write 82 DQ Mixed 65.7 49% 64.4 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 465GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 243436355 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4076 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 60025516 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15258 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3610 (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 76 50 403767320 (C2) HDA temperature 24 50 55834574872 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 17 243436355 (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 96628174251048 (F1) Unknown 100 253 714527275 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1667508659	66.6% Good	Read 119 Write 113 Mixed 109 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.67 137% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 70%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 16GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 129 4133 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4594 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11638 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3018 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 95 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 133 133 203148 (C2) HDA temperature 119 103 24 (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 0	53.4% Above average	Read 95.9 Write 90 Mixed 102 73% 96 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.15 76% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 85%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 750GB 127 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 679GB free, PID a208 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	18.3% Very poor	Read 35.1 Write 36.1 Mixed 35.8 46% 35.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.21 67% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 18.3% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C9 4x2GB 93 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	73.8% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 23.6 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 20.6 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 22.4 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 48.5 82% 48.5 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 79%

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

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Gaming 23%

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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