Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 73%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	79.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	126% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-2670-$53 4,803 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 5.9 GHz, turbo 6.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	73% Very good	Memory 89.8 1-Core 65 2-Core 158 62% 104 Pts	4-Core 304 8-Core 584 53% 444 Pts	64-Core 817 51% 817 Pts
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6472 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.1% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 106 Parallax 105 83% 105 fps	MRender 88.2 Gravity 91.4 Splatting 81.4 71% 87 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 126GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	Read 1,020 Write 914 Mixed 1,015 220% 983 MB/s	4K Read 13.3 4K Write 80.2 4K Mixed 18.9 87% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 30.3 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 16.1 33% 62.4 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 243%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2013) 72,354 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 327GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 152 147 1375 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1430 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 99 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 143 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 85 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2041 (C2) HDA temperature 122 101 21 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 33	57.3% Above average	Read 101 Write 98.9 Mixed 95.6 74% 98.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.23 81% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 4x4GB 550 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	MC Read 38.6 MC Write 37 MC Mixed 33.2 104% 36.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 10.7 SC Mixed 10.7 34% 11.9 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 90%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 44%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	35x
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 57%, 2,734 samples	28x
F3 DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 65%, 473 samples	15x

Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $577

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