Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 90% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	122% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	165% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3970X-$217 2,677 User benchmarks, average bench 78% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	78.1% Very good	Memory 90.5 1-Core 101 2-Core 184 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 625 59% 490 Pts	64-Core 823 51% 823 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6393) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	122% Outstanding	Lighting 164 Reflection 192 Parallax 195 133% 183 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 181 Splatting 125 116% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 4TB 1,422 User benchmarks, average bench 310% 928GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 673 747 777 805 808 806 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	165% Outstanding	Read 1,160 Write 819 Mixed 610 SusWrite 770 188% 839 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 82.9 4K Mixed 47.6 162% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 470 DQ Write 483 DQ Mixed 464 352% 473 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 165% Great: 565%
Marvell Raid VD 0 2TB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 529GB free Firmware: MV.R00-0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 589 646 663 681 599 446 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	109% Outstanding	Read 584 Write 709 Mixed 419 SusWrite 604 131% 579 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 70 4K Mixed 30.3 109% 40.7 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 386 DQ Mixed 187 182% 284 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 109%
Seagate BUP SL 5TB 52 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 492GB free, PID ab30 SusWrite @10s intervals: 103 102 104 105 104 104 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	44.2% Average	Read 47.8 Write 73.3 Mixed 51.3 SusWrite 104 100% 69.1 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 4.7 4K Mixed 0.4 177% 2.03 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 44.2% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 2400 C11 8x8GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 8 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 43.8 MC Write 42.6 MC Mixed 39 119% 41.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 13.8 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 127%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 96%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 84%

Aircraft carrier

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	16x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	15x
Ultra II 480GBSanDisk $39Bench 86%, 62,883 samples	15x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBKingstonBench 70%, 5,910 samples	21x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	17x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 74%, 7,519 samples	12x

Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $881

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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