Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91.2% 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	138% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$150 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	83.3% Excellent	Memory 89.4 1-Core 105 2-Core 205 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 693 68% 554 Pts	64-Core 834 52% 834 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Lighting 119 Reflection 117 Parallax 116 97% 117 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 105 Splatting 90.9 80% 97.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM04.C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 585 744 759 624 357 356 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	138% Outstanding	Read 886 Write 826 Mixed 671 SusWrite 571 166% 738 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 88.4 4K Mixed 45.1 157% 56.1 MB/s	DQ Read 305 DQ Write 546 DQ Mixed 567 390% 473 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 185%
Corsair Force GS 360GB-$294 529 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 287GB free Firmware: 5.24 SusWrite @10s intervals: 202 211 187 226 216 220 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	59.7% Above average	Read 404 Write 293 Mixed 290 SusWrite 210 67% 299 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 21.1 4K Mixed 24.1 83% 24.1 MB/s	DQ Read 122 DQ Write 98.5 DQ Mixed 92.3 74% 104 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 65%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 639GB free Firmware: JB0OA3B0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 111 110 112 113 113 110 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	61.9% Good	Read 104 Write 98.5 Mixed 32 SusWrite 111 63% 86.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.7 140% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3400 C16 4x4GB 144 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	90.8% Outstanding	MC Read 35.1 MC Write 36.5 MC Mixed 32.5 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 19.2 SC Mixed 18.9 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 68 59% 68 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 118%

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

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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