Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	78.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	70.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
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.

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	76.3% Very good	Memory 90.3 1-Core 81 2-Core 147 65% 106 Pts	4-Core 335 8-Core 662 59% 498 Pts	64-Core 1,041 64% 1,041 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 8549) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 398.82 Performing below potential (49^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.3% Very good	Lighting 99.1 Reflection 102 Parallax 98 81% 99.6 fps	MRender 87.8 Gravity 93.1 Splatting 88.6 74% 89.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Z400s 256GB-$221 10,770 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z2201000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 299 314 259 281 244 227 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	70.3% Very good	Read 474 Write 297 Mixed 214 SusWrite 271 70% 314 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 67.1 4K Mixed 14.8 91% 35.3 MB/s	DQ Read 131 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 75.5 89% 150 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 84%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$75 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 661GB free Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 129 127 138 150 150 135 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Read 131 Write 122 Mixed 28.5 SusWrite 138 76% 105 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 4.9 4K Mixed 2.1 378% 2.77 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 108%
Seagate ST3300831AS 300GB 1,245 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 279GB free Firmware: 3.03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 57 57 57 58 57 57 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	32.9% Below average	Read 57.2 Write 14.7 Mixed 39 SusWrite 57.2 31% 42 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.8 137% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 32.9% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2133 C15 8x8GB 123 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 8 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	MC Read 49.4 MC Write 43.9 MC Mixed 42.7 130% 45.3 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 13.3 SC Mixed 16.6 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 101% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 127%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 65%

Destroyer

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	89x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	40x

Value: 91% - Outstanding

Total price: $371

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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