Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	13.3% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	54.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3960X-$265 2,165 User benchmarks, average bench 78% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	79.4% Very good	Memory 92.5 1-Core 95 2-Core 185 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 360 8-Core 506 54% 433 Pts	64-Core 647 40% 647 Pts
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	13.3% Very poor	Lighting 17.5 Reflection 13.5 Parallax 14.6 14% 15.2 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 11.7 Splatting 17.2 11% 13.5 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.3% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 960GB-$59 4,389 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 634GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 302 323 273 241 242 245 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	54.6% Above average	Read 335 Write 341 Mixed 270 SusWrite 271 68% 304 MB/s	4K Read 14 4K Write 26.5 4K Mixed 16.8 57% 19.1 MB/s	DQ Read 1.5 DQ Write 313 DQ Mixed 1.7 48% 105 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 101%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$60 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 746GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 67 63 67 70 72 71 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	45% Average	Read 88.2 Write 88.5 Mixed 64.3 SusWrite 68.3 57% 77.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.8 144% 1 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 45% Great: 67%
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB 3,701 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 542GB free, PID 5031 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 23 23 23 23 23 24 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	11.2% Very poor	Read 26.5 Write 22.5 Mixed 20.2 SusWrite 23.3 31% 23.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.6 46% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 11.2% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 0x424C533447334431363039445331533030 4x4GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	MC Read 38.1 MC Write 38.9 MC Mixed 35 107% 37.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 12.4 SC Mixed 12.3 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 63.1 63% 63.1 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 101%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 61%

Destroyer

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	1,322x
SVGA 3DVmwareBench 20%, 11,474 samples	1,143x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	1,048x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	826x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples	457x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	426x

Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $325

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16