Asrock Z68 Pro3

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 65% Destroyer	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 50.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	21.4% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	74.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Very high background CPU (70%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z68 Pro3 (all builds)
Memory	3.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20110425
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '18 at 02:29
Run Duration	288 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	70%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-2120-$170 77,810 User benchmarks, average bench 51% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	50.2% Above average	Memory 72.1 1-Core 81.4 2-Core 124 56% 92.5 Pts	4-Core 166 8-Core 168 22% 167 Pts	64-Core 168 10% 168 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 61%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 8422) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 344.11 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	21.4% Poor	Lighting 25.6 Reflection 24.5 Parallax 34.1 21% 28.1 fps	MRender 33 Gravity 23.8 Splatting 25.8 22% 27.5 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.4% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ VERTEX-PLUS 60GB 771 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 37GB free Firmware: 3.50 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 4 0 4 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 47043 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 227 (E8) Unknown 100 100 155248 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100	23% Poor	Read 162 Write 82.4 Mixed 91.6 25% 112 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 8.93 4K Mixed 3.95 36% 10.2 MB/s	DQ Read 44.4 DQ Write 8.92 DQ Mixed 4.48 9% 19.3 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 23% Great: 36%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 9GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 32996 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 86 (B1) Unknown 92 92 89 (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 68 54 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 60 (EB) Unknown 99 99 56 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18402045798	74.7% Very good	Read 496 Write 318 Mixed 246 78% 353 MB/s	4K Read 31.9 4K Write 40.1 4K Mixed 20.6 96% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 204 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 59 69% 122 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 114062688 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1398 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 978089 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6906 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 27 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 77 59 487981079 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4886 (C2) HDA temperature 23 41 90194313239 (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 -16037407882887 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8234574571 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5960176610	95.7% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 153 Mixed 59.3 96% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.24 90% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 114%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 339GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 179 7866 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1324 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10469 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 45 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6318 (C2) HDA temperature 127 108 25 (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	51.8% Above average	Read 85.9 Write 94.3 Mixed 72.8 63% 84.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 0.28 111% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 186GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 205235944 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4064 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 37290522 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 36202 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 120 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 76 57 471138328 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 46 46 108430 (C2) HDA temperature 24 43 68719476760 (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 131894150698771 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15594041892 (F2) Unknown 100 253 30731083646	71.2% Very good	Read 118 Write 131 Mixed 92.3 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.3 69% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 114%
Generic- SD/MMC 32GB 981 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 27GB free, PID 0109 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	14.8% Very poor	Read 19.9 Write 15.2 Mixed 18.2 22% 17.8 MB/s	4K Read 4.59 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 2.31 179% 3.12 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 14.8% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata DDR3 1866G 2OZ 2x4GB 86 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	53% Above average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 19.7 MC Mixed 18.4 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 13 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 96.6 41% 96.6 ns
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 52%

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Typical Z68 Pro3 Builds (Compare 374 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 36%

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Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z68 Pro3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	172x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	65x
Core i5-2500IntelBench 63%, 82,538 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	25x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	23x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	22x
870 EVO 500GBSamsung $60Bench 104%, 60,851 samples	20x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	15x

RAM
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 54%, 12,350 samples	19x
Team--Elite-1333 2x4GBTeamBench 46%, 1,562 samples	12x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 47,852 samples	10x

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Value: 56% - Above average

Total price: $555

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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