Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 80.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	9.75% 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	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	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 (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	80.1% Excellent	Memory 93.9 1-Core 100 2-Core 201 77% 132 Pts	4-Core 361 8-Core 508 55% 434 Pts	64-Core 507 31% 507 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Asus(1043 83C2) 1GB CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1026 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	9.75% Terrible	Lighting 10.9 Reflection 12.8 Parallax 9.22 9% 11 fps	MRender 15.2 Gravity 11.3 Splatting 14.9 11% 13.8 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.75% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 7,011 User benchmarks, average bench 140% 477GB free Firmware: BXV77D0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 273 272 275 272 273 272 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Read 372 Write 272 Mixed 275 SusWrite 273 67% 298 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 78.4 4K Mixed 35.2 134% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 392 DQ Write 290 DQ Mixed 470 316% 384 MB/s
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 172%
Toshiba MQ02ABF100 1TB-$55 6,063 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 904GB free (System drive) Firmware: DS001D SusWrite @10s intervals: 90 92 85 86 89 90 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	55.4% Above average	Read 104 Write 103 Mixed 46 SusWrite 88.7 62% 85.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.6 117% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 993995 4x4GB 168 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	95% Outstanding	MC Read 35.8 MC Write 39.3 MC Mixed 35.4 105% 36.8 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 14.5 SC Mixed 13.3 43% 14.9 GB/s	Latency 60 67% 60 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 98%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 60%

Destroyer

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

Yacht

SSD
128GB 128GBSSDBench 65%, 7,332 samples	16x
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBWD $74Bench 228%, 180,890 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
99U5471-012.A 99U5471-020.A 9905471-006.A 9905471-006.A 16GBKingstonBench 86%, 17 samples	13x
F3 DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 65%, 473 samples	10x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	5x

Value: 143% - Outstanding

Total price: $132

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