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Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 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 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 74.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	16.7% 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	103% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Micro-Star GL72 6QD
Motherboard	MSI MS-1796 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160603
Uptime	25.2 Days
Run Date	Sep 07 '17 at 02:40
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	74.9% Very good	Memory 86.4 1-Core 107 2-Core 192 75% 128 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 536 54% 439 Pts	64-Core 538 33% 538 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 950M 38,813 User benchmarks, average bench 14% MSI(1462 1191) 2GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 22.21.13.8541 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	16.7% Very poor	Lighting 22.1 Reflection 16.3 Parallax 17.7 18% 18.7 fps	MRender 13.8 Gravity 22.1 Splatting 16 14% 17.3 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 16.7% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 144GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 651 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 386 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 45 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2968578335	103% Outstanding	Read 484 Write 356 Mixed 394 92% 412 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 72.4 4K Mixed 42 158% 52.6 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 114 134% 235 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 122%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 911GB free Firmware: JB0OA3U0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 125 125 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 493 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 722 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 493 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4381 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 206159413278 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	74.6% Very good	Read 139 Write 121 Mixed 126 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.21 83% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 04CD F4-2133C15-8GRS 16GB 45 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 21.3 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 22.1 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 70.9 56% 70.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 74%

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Gaming 7%

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Desktop

Desktop 55%

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Workstation

Workstation 6%

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Motherboard: MSI MS-1796

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	93x
Core i5-6300HQIntelBench 54%, 41,531 samples	61x
Core i3-6100HIntelBench 56%, 313 samples	4x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	100x
GTX 950MNvidiaBench 14%, 38,813 samples	40x
940MXNvidiaBench 9%, 36,213 samples	17x

SSD
THNSNJ128G8NY 128GBToshibaBench 73%, 7,789 samples	12x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	5x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	5x

RAM
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 1x8GBSamsungBench 35%, 32,056 samples	28x
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBHynixBench 38%, 45,898 samples	21x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 66%, 14,350 samples	8x

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