Ciara Q87M-XA

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	21.6% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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.

System	Ciara Q87M-XA (all builds)
Motherboard	ASUSTeK Q87M-E
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20131213
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Sep 13 '16 at 17:26
Run Duration	83 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4570-$99 129,272 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 87.3 1-Core 107 2-Core 210 77% 135 Pts	4-Core 378 8-Core 384 51% 381 Pts	64-Core 389 24% 389 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 8422) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	21.6% Poor	Lighting 26.2 Reflection 24.2 Parallax 31 21% 27.1 fps	MRender 33.8 Gravity 23.7 Splatting 25.2 22% 27.5 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.6% Great: 21%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB-$25 163,843 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 312GB free (System drive) Firmware: MS1OA750 Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	80.4% Excellent	Read 144 Write 136 Mixed 30.4 75% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.16 62% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-037.A00LF 2x8GB 2,364 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	61.2% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 18.5 61% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 21 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 70.2 57% 70.2 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 61%

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Desktop 60%

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Workstation 7%

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System: Ciara Q87M-XA

CPU
Core i5-4570Intel $99Bench 62%, 129,272 samples	73x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	24x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	17x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	40x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	31x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	13x

SSD
Burst 120GBPatriotBench 66%, 15,567 samples	8x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	7x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	5x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	6x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GBKingstonBench 63%, 2,772 samples	5x
CT102464BA160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 11,058 samples	5x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $114

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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