Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	90.4% 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	24% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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 (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	Memory 89.7 1-Core 104 2-Core 201 76% 132 Pts	4-Core 336 8-Core 527 53% 431 Pts	64-Core 522 32% 522 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 80%

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: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 118 Parallax 99.5 94% 111 fps	MRender 97.6 Gravity 103 Splatting 104 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B1Q Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	24% Poor	Read 194 Write 77.7 Mixed 114 28% 129 MB/s	4K Read 2.16 4K Write 38.8 4K Mixed 2.84 27% 14.6 MB/s	DQ Read 127 DQ Write 41.1 DQ Mixed 37.1 40% 68.5 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 24% Great: 76%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 91GB free Firmware: 1A01 Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	61.6% Good	Read 116 Write 97.9 Mixed 116 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.46 4K Mixed 0.22 93% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 3x4GB 195 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 3 of 8 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	69.1% Good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 25.4 MC Mixed 24.2 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 14.8 SC Mixed 13 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 69%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 38%

Jet ski

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

Sail boat

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	35x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	26x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	21x

Value: 49% - Average

Total price: $429

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