Asus P8Z68-V LX

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 65% Destroyer	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.45% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 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	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20110715
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 08 '18 at 08:44
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$81 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	Memory 91.9 1-Core 95.8 2-Core 186 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 319 8-Core 474 49% 397 Pts	64-Core 474 29% 474 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 430 22,369 User benchmarks, average bench 3% EVGA(3842 1430) 1GB CLim: 700 MHz, MLim: 350 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	3.45% Terrible	Lighting 4.27 Reflection 5.08 Parallax 3.47 4% 4.27 fps	MRender 5.62 Gravity 4.27 Splatting 3.09 3% 4.32 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.45% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$20 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: KC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 103 99 5764584 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1416 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 162949165 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13378 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1413 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 54 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 46 420479001 (C2) HDA temperature 25 54 21474836505 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 61 33 5764584 (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 -56027848362955 (F1) Unknown 100 253 143517599 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2669148710	51.8% Above average	Read 89.6 Write 91.3 Mixed 9.86 46% 63.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.22 4K Write 0.65 4K Mixed 0.48 74% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 88%
WD 6400AAD External 640GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 491GB free, PID 1003 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	19.2% Very poor	Read 36.6 Write 37.5 Mixed 21.3 40% 31.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.16 70% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 19.2% Great: 19%
Seagate Desktop 1TB 4,684 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 302GB free, PID 3300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	10% Terrible	Read 22.3 Write 23.8 Mixed 7.11 22% 17.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 0.44 4K Mixed 0.22 26% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 10% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown SUPERTALENT02 4x4GB 565 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	49.7% Average	MC Read 17.5 MC Write 17.1 MC Mixed 15.2 47% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 16.6 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 93%

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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	490x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	429x
Core i7-2600Intel $81Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	196x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	134x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	123x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	105x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	71x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 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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