Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	24% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Memory 84.6 1-Core 104 2-Core 205 75% 131 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 398 53% 398 Pts	64-Core 390 24% 390 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 M290 93 User benchmarks, average bench 21% Apple(106B 0139) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.2101.0 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	24% Poor	Lighting 29.1 Reflection 31.2 Parallax 34.2 24% 31.5 fps	MRender 27.5 Gravity 23.1 Splatting 36.3 24% 29 fps
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 24% Great: 24%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 265GB free (System drive) Firmware: AP14 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 44258792 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8642 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 182367653 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4757 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8776 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 61 49 672792615 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 251 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8776 (C2) HDA temperature 39 51 47244640295 (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 104333345559403 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19579145197 (F2) Unknown 100 253 651357349077	76.8% Very good	Read 132 Write 136 Mixed 120 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.17 80% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220 2x4GB 154 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	53.3% Above average	MC Read 19.5 MC Write 19.5 MC Mixed 16.4 53% 18.5 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 17.9 SC Mixed 15.4 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 72.5 55% 72.5 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 77%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 20%

Surfboard

SSD
SM1024G PCIe 1TBAppleBench 169%, 404 samples	2x
Portable SSD T5 1TBSamsungBench 77%, 13,039 samples	2x
SM1024F 1TBAppleBench 82%, 15 samples	1x

RAM
0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220 2x4GBUnknownBench 56%, 154 samples	8x
0x31364B544631473634485A2D314736453220 2x8GBUnknownBench 56%, 50 samples	3x
0x484D54343147533641465238412D50422020 2x8GBUnknownBench 63%, 311 samples	2x

Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $348

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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