Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 33% Sail boat	Desktop 53% Yacht	Workstation 33% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.8%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	29% is a below average 3D score (GTX 1070 = 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-4590-$241 29,020 User benchmarks, average bench 73% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	75.8% Very good	SC Int 104 SC Float 106 SC Mixed 106 84% 105 Pts	QC Int 392 QC Float 390 QC Mixed 392 89% 391 Pts	MC Int 389 MC Float 388 MC Mixed 388 58% 388 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R9 M290 (Bootcamp XG edition by bootcampdrivers.com) 2 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Apple(106B 0139) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.9.2 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	29% Poor	Lighting 86.7 Reflection 80 Parallax 110 29% 92.1 fps	MRender 57.3 Gravity 68.9 Splatting 82.5 29% 69.6 fps
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 29% Great: 29%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$55 364,417 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 92GB free Firmware: AP14 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 96536056 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1035 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 356259699 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17369 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1265 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 62 51 689569830 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 322 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1273 (C2) HDA temperature 38 49 85899345958 (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 46548855571451 (F1) Unknown 100 253 56641411059 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1438550807712	78.7% Very good	Read 138 Write 136 Mixed 108 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.18 66% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220 2x4GB 36 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	54.7% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 19.9 MC Mixed 17 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 18.7 SC Mixed 16.1 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 70.3 57% 70.3 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 58%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 32%

Sail boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 42%

Speed boat

SSD
SM0512G PCIe 500GBAppleBench 157%, 669 samples	5x
SM0256G PCIe 251GBAppleBench 149%, 626 samples	4x
M500 240GBCrucial $80Bench 73%, 12,758 samples	4x

RAM
0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220 2x4GBUnknownBench 53%, 36 samples	25x
0x484D54343147533641465238412D50422020 2x8GBUnknownBench 55%, 11 samples	10x
0x484D54343531533641465238412D50422020 2x4GBUnknownBench 54%, 12 samples	9x

Value: 90% - Excellent

Total price: $194

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $183	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $75	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $957	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $193	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12