Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 25% Raft	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


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 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 23.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	1.53% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Memory	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

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	Extreme
Intel Core2 Duo T9550-$150 915 User benchmarks, average bench 21% N/A, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.65 GHz, turbo 2.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	23.8% Poor	1-Core 47.4 2-Core 93.8 33% 70.6 Pts	4-Core 96.2 8-Core 95.3 13% 95.8 Pts	64-Core 92.7 6% 92.7 Pts
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 23.8% Great: 24%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9600M-GT 2,784 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Sony(104D 9040) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	1.53% Terrible	Lighting 7.1 Reflection 11.7 Parallax 2.6 2% 7.13 fps	MRender 6.3 Gravity 4.8 Splatting 5.2 2% 5.43 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.53% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung MMCRE64GFMPP-MVA 64GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: VAM05S1Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 39 58 51 57 58 70 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples
Poor: 27% Great: 27%
Fujitsu MHZ2500BT G1 500GB 106 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 454GB free Firmware: 0041000C SusWrite @10s intervals: 47 48 48 48 47 48 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	27.5% Poor	Read 47.9 Write 47.3 Mixed 31.7 SusWrite 47.8 32% 43.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.7 117% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 27.5% Great: 28%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x2GB 273,549 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 2 of 2 slots used 4GB SODIMM DDR2 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	18.5% Very poor	MC Read 6.7 MC Write 5.2 MC Mixed 5.1 16% 5.67 GB/s	SC Read 5.5 SC Write 5.2 SC Mixed 4.9 15% 5.2 GB/s	Latency 91.6 44% 91.6 ns
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 18.5% Great: 43%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 11%

Tree trunk

Desktop 28%

Raft

Workstation 13%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core2 Duo T9550Intel $150Bench 21%, 915 samples	6x

GPU
GeForce 9600M-GTNvidiaBench 2%, 2,784 samples	6x

SSD
Burst 120GBPatriotBench 70%, 5,251 samples	1x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $58Bench 54%, 221,046 samples	1x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $61Bench 105%, 507,744 samples	1x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 21%, 273,549 samples	6x

Value: 25% - Poor

Total price: $150

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $76	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $58	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $613	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $24