Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	97.7% 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	56.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (55^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 970-$1,141 4,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% J1PR, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 94.5 2-Core 188 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 366 8-Core 536 56% 451 Pts	64-Core 683 42% 683 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% MSI(1462 C303) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 399.7 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 130 Parallax 113 101% 123 fps	MRender 99 Gravity 126 Splatting 107 91% 111 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 196 164 180 191 187 179 MB/s Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	56.7% Above average	Read 244 Write 38.9 Mixed 223 SusWrite 183 38% 172 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 45.6 4K Mixed 26 86% 30.2 MB/s	DQ Read 206 DQ Write 191 DQ Mixed 147 124% 181 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 91%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 210GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 142 143 145 144 145 143 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	76.8% Very good	Read 124 Write 118 Mixed 69.7 SusWrite 144 83% 114 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1.2 232% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 393GB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 161 160 162 163 165 165 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	96.1% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 128 Mixed 69.2 SusWrite 163 97% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 150% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3x4GB 39,448 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	42.4% Average	MC Read 15.7 MC Write 13.2 MC Mixed 14.7 42% 14.5 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 8.1 SC Mixed 10.8 28% 9.67 GB/s	Latency 59.7 67% 59.7 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 42.4% Great: 57%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 70%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

Surfboard

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	4x
GeForce 9600 GTNvidiaBench 4%, 20,826 samples	3x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	3x

Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $495

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