Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 28% Raft	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (28th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 72 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 relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 28.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	7.18% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Quad Q9400-$170 24,176 User benchmarks, average bench 46% CPU, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.65 GHz, turbo 2.5 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	28.3% Poor	Memory 39.8 1-Core 29.7 2-Core 58.8 27% 42.8 Pts	4-Core 98.2 8-Core 102 13% 99.9 Pts	64-Core 113 7% 113 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 28.3% Great: 53%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 240 58,337 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Device(1B0A 90D3) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	7.18% Terrible	Lighting 9.13 Reflection 9.46 Parallax 10.7 7% 9.75 fps	MRender 8.05 Gravity 7.93 Splatting 8.35 7% 8.11 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 7.18% Great: 6%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate ST3250312AS 250GB-$32 19,180 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: HP64 SusWrite @10s intervals: 25 20 15 17 22 41 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	9.69% Terrible	Read 10 Write 58 Mixed 10.3 SusWrite 23.4 18% 25.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.5 84% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 9.69% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR2 Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	13.4% Very poor	MC Read 4.5 MC Write 4.5 MC Mixed 4.5 13% 4.5 GB/s	SC Read 3.5 SC Write 4.2 SC Mixed 3.6 11% 3.77 GB/s	Latency 203 20% 203 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 13.4% Great: 45%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 4%

Tree trunk

Desktop 40%

Speed boat

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $89Bench 40%, 68,540 samples	81x
Core2 Quad Q9400Intel $170Bench 46%, 24,176 samples	35x
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $161Bench 49%, 34,093 samples	27x

GPU
Q45/Q43 Express ChipsetIntelBench 0%, 16,152 samples	29x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	19x
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	18x

Value: 44% - Average

Total price: $118

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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