Performance Results


Gaming 32% Sail boat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	36.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	257% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 1600-$110 392,253 User benchmarks, average bench 70% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	68.3% Good	Memory 66.5 1-Core 104 2-Core 194 68% 122 Pts	4-Core 377 8-Core 656 62% 516 Pts	64-Core 815 50% 815 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 3967) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	36.1% Below average	Lighting 47.3 Reflection 0.65 Parallax 40.2 39% 29.4 fps	MRender 37.9 Gravity 41.4 Splatting 36.5 31% 38.6 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 1TB-$130 602,853 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 682GB free Firmware: RVT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 436 456 467 463 468 471 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	123% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 482 Mixed 460 SusWrite 460 107% 475 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 55.2 187% 66.1 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 353 DQ Mixed 363 274% 365 MB/s
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 377GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 2100 723 614 611 612 611 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	257% Outstanding	Read 2,455 Write 2,238 Mixed 1,536 SusWrite 878 397% 1,777 MB/s	4K Read 51.3 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 71.8 230% 79.2 MB/s	DQ Read 865 DQ Write 626 DQ Mixed 798 582% 763 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 257% Great: 340%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 77 92 155 171 177 177 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 94.5 Mixed 75.5 SusWrite 141 91% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.8 139% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4-3600C DDR4 2x8GB 87 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1067 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.4% Very good	MC Read 29.8 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 25.7 79% 27.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 25.6 SC Mixed 20.9 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 110 36% 110 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 100%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 45%

Yacht

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 42%

Speed boat

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	185x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	170x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	71x

Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $459

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