Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding GPU, SSD
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
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.

PC Performing above expectations (75^th 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 i7-3770K-$529 45,210 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85% Excellent	SC Int 123 SC Float 126 SC Mixed 123 99% 124 Pts	QC Int 395 QC Float 442 QC Mixed 409 94% 415 Pts	MC Int 628 MC Float 633 MC Mixed 640 95% 634 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 89%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD WD10JPLX-00MBPT0 1TB 2,056 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 807GB free Firmware: 01.01H01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 169 169 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1121 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 1481 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 897 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 39 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 52873 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 180389412894 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	64.3% Good	Read 121 Write 104 Mixed 105 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 0.36 4K Mixed 0.14 45% 0.35 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 26,994 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	60.8% Good	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 20.6 MC Mixed 18.6 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 19.7 57% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 54.7 73% 54.7 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 64%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 60%

Gunboat

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 40%

Speed boat

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $80Bench 94%, 274,376 samples	111x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 96%, 197,216 samples	70x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $65Bench 48%, 119,806 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 50%, 26,994 samples	69x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 25,300 samples	69x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 57%, 31,182 samples	29x

Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $734

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $190	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $931	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $204	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12