Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 23% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 79.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	33.5% 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	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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3-$35 19,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	79.6% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 109 2-Core 199 78% 133 Pts	4-Core 363 8-Core 554 57% 459 Pts	64-Core 534 33% 534 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280-$185 33,175 User benchmarks, average bench 30% MSI(1462 277C) 3GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.200.1010.0 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	33.5% Below average	Lighting 43.4 Reflection 31.1 Parallax 53.4 35% 42.6 fps	MRender 29.5 Gravity 39.9 Splatting 38.6 30% 36 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 33.5% Great: 34%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 409GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 178 5866 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 405 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5080 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 405 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 164 164 108406 (C2) HDA temperature 113 104 37 (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	64.1% Good	Read 112 Write 111 Mixed 102 82% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.46 4K Mixed 0.26 111% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 83%
Generic Flash Disk 16GB 18,883 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 11GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	6.47% Terrible	Read 22.6 Write 12.6 Mixed 4.3 14% 13.2 MB/s	4K Read 1.76 4K Write 0.009 4K Mixed 0.002 7% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 6.47% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G 16GB 28 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	56.9% Above average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 20.7 MC Mixed 17.2 55% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 19.2 51% 18 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 61%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

Raft

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	24x
BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GBCrucialBench 57%, 14,299 samples	23x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	20x

Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $709

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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