Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	216% 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	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.

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770K-$175 165,979 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.9 1-Core 122 2-Core 242 88% 154 Pts	4-Core 449 8-Core 618 67% 534 Pts	64-Core 612 38% 612 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 117 Parallax 99.1 93% 110 fps	MRender 98.4 Gravity 101 Splatting 98.9 82% 99.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 291GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	216% Outstanding	Read 2,102 Write 1,297 Mixed 1,490 361% 1,630 MB/s	4K Read 44.1 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 24.3 166% 65.6 MB/s	DQ Read 37.9 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 23.9 40% 74.4 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 216% Great: 283%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 813GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 172 4166 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 851 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 562 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 354 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7056 (C2) HDA temperature 115 111 32 (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	67.1% Good	Read 128 Write 106 Mixed 125 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.18 95% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C9 2x8GB 80 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	77.8% Very good	MC Read 28.6 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 25 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 23.2 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 46.6 86% 46.6 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 80%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	53x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	50x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	48x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	20x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 2,134 samples	15x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	15x

Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $650

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