Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 90% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	131% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	52.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd 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 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 119 2-Core 204 81% 138 Pts	4-Core 393 8-Core 566 60% 479 Pts	64-Core 601 37% 601 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	Lighting 179 Reflection 214 Parallax 212 146% 202 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 189 Splatting 131 123% 152 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB 2,100 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 129GB free Firmware: BB6Q Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 502 Mixed 509 114% 511 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 40.2 178% 65.6 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 123 156% 278 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 102%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B1Q Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	52.3% Above average	Read 416 Write 145 Mixed 150 52% 237 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 37.4 4K Mixed 12.4 68% 23.6 MB/s	DQ Read 273 DQ Write 40.7 DQ Mixed 34.8 57% 116 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 76%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 717GB free Firmware: 1113 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	62.9% Good	Read 104 Write 115 Mixed 120 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.51 126% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	MC Read 33.2 MC Write 34.3 MC Mixed 31.1 94% 32.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 14.8 46% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 76%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 58%

Gunboat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

Yacht

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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