Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 40% Speed boat	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 33% Sail boat


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 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 70%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% AM3r2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70% Very good	Memory 93.3 1-Core 75.8 2-Core 143 64% 104 Pts	4-Core 254 8-Core 447 42% 350 Pts	64-Core 465 29% 465 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% MSI(1462 2015) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.150.2401.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Lighting 77.1 Reflection 64.7 Parallax 86.9 63% 76.2 fps	MRender 63.2 Gravity 61.4 Splatting 80.4 57% 68.3 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M5S 128GB-$75 5,727 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 8GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.05 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 397 Write 207 Mixed 204 59% 269 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 42.7 4K Mixed 19.9 78% 27.5 MB/s	DQ Read 269 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 61.3 92% 176 MB/s
Poor: 53% Great: 84%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 163GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 140 142 142 143 143 143 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	83.3% Excellent	Read 148 Write 136 Mixed 92.3 SusWrite 142 95% 129 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 1.1 215% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GB 82,857 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	31.7% Below average	MC Read 11.4 MC Write 9.6 MC Mixed 8.1 28% 9.7 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 9.7 SC Mixed 10 29% 10.3 GB/s	Latency 61.4 65% 61.4 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 51%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 32%

Sail boat

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 26%

Raft

Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $499

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