Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	99.5% 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	270% 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 (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 88.9 1-Core 128 2-Core 259 88% 159 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 484 67% 494 Pts	64-Core 495 31% 495 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% EVGA(3842 5671) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 416.81 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	99.5% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 136 Parallax 115 105% 126 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 127 Splatting 105 90% 110 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$100 154,949 User benchmarks, average bench 235% 192GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1144 308 311 312 310 312 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	270% Outstanding	Read 2,422 Write 1,467 Mixed 1,069 SusWrite 449 298% 1,352 MB/s	4K Read 63.2 4K Write 168 4K Mixed 85.1 294% 105 MB/s	DQ Read 977 DQ Write 1,479 DQ Mixed 1,011 826% 1,155 MB/s
Poor: 160% ↑ This bench: 270% Great: 280%
Hitachi HTS541010B7E610 1TB 40,802 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 111 122 122 123 122 122 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	76.3% Very good	Read 144 Write 114 Mixed 91.8 SusWrite 120 87% 117 MB/s	4K Read 1.5 4K Write 6.7 4K Mixed 0.7 264% 2.97 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB 19,779 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42.8% Average	MC Read 14.7 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 13.2 41% 14.2 GB/s	SC Read 11.9 SC Write 14 SC Mixed 13.8 38% 13.2 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 96%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 89%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 76%

Battleship

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	386x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	223x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	219x

Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $898

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