Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 83.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	77.6% 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	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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	1.9 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	30.2 Days
Run Date	Sep 15 '18 at 06:57
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	20%

PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Memory 87 1-Core 127 2-Core 253 87% 156 Pts	4-Core 431 8-Core 660 68% 546 Pts	64-Core 675 42% 675 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (49^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.6% Very good	Lighting 99.7 Reflection 102 Parallax 89.5 81% 97.1 fps	MRender 86.5 Gravity 91.7 Splatting 81.6 70% 86.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB-$199 9,250 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 41GB free Firmware: X21200RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 319 272 276 223 214 211 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Read 452 Write 387 Mixed 149 SusWrite 252 69% 310 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 75.4 4K Mixed 35 123% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 308 DQ Mixed 153 166% 280 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 356GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC2A SusWrite @10s intervals: 37 39 25 24 30 46 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	16.5% Very poor	Read 23.8 Write 99.2 Mixed 47.7 SusWrite 33.5 38% 51 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.2 55% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 16.5% Great: 113%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 169 169 173 172 173 173 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	97.4% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 166 Mixed 94 SusWrite 172 110% 150 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 3.3 4K Mixed 1 214% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x16GB 2,982 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68% Good	MC Read 23.3 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 21.9 69% 24 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 24.5 SC Mixed 19.4 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 70.5 57% 70.5 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 129%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $641

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