Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 73.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	21% 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	62.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 8 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2-$266 8,235 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	73.1% Very good	Memory 90.7 1-Core 95.1 2-Core 179 72% 122 Pts	4-Core 303 8-Core 421 46% 362 Pts	64-Core 465 29% 465 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% MSI(1462 2871) 2GB CLim: 1254 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	21% Poor	Lighting 25 Reflection 23 Parallax 30.1 20% 26 fps	MRender 31 Gravity 28.4 Splatting 24 22% 27.8 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	62.9% Good	Read 437 Write 181 Mixed 190 59% 270 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 58.3 4K Mixed 13 84% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 271 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 15.4 69% 157 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 94%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Read 133 Write 132 Mixed 113 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.24 94% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 88%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 262GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	68.8% Good	Read 111 Write 129 Mixed 83.3 80% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.42 114% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 69%
BUFFALO HD-PCU2 500GB 449 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 325GB free, PID 01d9 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	14.1% Very poor	Read 30.6 Write 26.1 Mixed 14.3 28% 23.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.32 55% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.1% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	47.7% Average	MC Read 17.3 MC Write 16.4 MC Mixed 15.3 47% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.5 SC Write 13.5 SC Mixed 14.2 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 76%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	142x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	126x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	114x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	55x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	47x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	43x

Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $472

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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