Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 39% Jet ski	Desktop 51% Yacht	Workstation 36% Jet ski


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 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 72.7%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	37.6% is a below average 3D score (GTX 1070 = 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-3550-$243 4,830 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	72.7% Very good	SC Int 97.8 SC Float 100 SC Mixed 99.4 79% 99.1 Pts	QC Int 380 QC Float 386 QC Mixed 379 86% 382 Pts	MC Int 376 MC Float 383 MC Mixed 380 57% 380 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$155 139,305 User benchmarks, average bench 39% EVGA(3842 6251) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	37.6% Below average	Lighting 116 Reflection 77.8 Parallax 116 36% 103 fps	MRender 79 Gravity 111 Splatting 80 39% 89.9 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 43%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$25 109,428 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 325GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 101 99 14336 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1184 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 142830493 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9171 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1184 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 56 672596008 (C2) HDA temperature 40 44 60129542184 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 30 14336 (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 -108473694018617 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1180202393 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4150351189	52.8% Above average	Read 98 Write 86 Mixed 107 74% 97.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.47 87% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 64C0JKHHJ Micron 16JTF51264AZ-1G6M1 01BA 64C0JKHHJ Micron 16JTF51264AZ-1G6M1 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	56.2% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 17.2 56% 19.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 17.4 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 71.7 56% 71.7 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 56%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 12%

Tree trunk

Desktop 58%

Gunboat

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

GPU
HD 2500 (Desktop 1.05 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 31,135 samples	1,595x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 4%, 11,067 samples	606x
HD 7470AMDBench 2%, 2,856 samples	517x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $80Bench 94%, 274,376 samples	139x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 96%, 191,118 samples	103x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $65Bench 48%, 119,806 samples	55x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 54%, 3,451 samples	190x
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 1x4GBHynixBench 30%, 1,621 samples	160x
HMT451U6AFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 53%, 3,056 samples	145x

Value: 92% - Outstanding

Total price: $237

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $190	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $957	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $204	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12