Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 42% Speed boat	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 42.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	7.07% 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	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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware alienware (all builds)
Motherboard	alienware alienware
Memory	1 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20080122
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 06 '18 at 21:34
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Duo E8400-$89 68,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% Socket 775, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	42.8% Average	Memory 75 1-Core 23.5 2-Core 75.7 39% 58.1 Pts	4-Core 66.6 8-Core 61.5 9% 64.1 Pts	64-Core 75.1 5% 75.1 Pts
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 47%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS-512 1,256 User benchmarks, average bench 7% Nvidia(10DE 0502) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	7.07% Terrible	Lighting 10 Reflection 9.54 Parallax 3.53 8% 7.69 fps	MRender 4.81 Gravity 7.3 Splatting 6 5% 6.04 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 7.07% Great: 8%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 130GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 29 18 17 32 70 40 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	29.2% Poor	Read 66.8 Write 55.6 Mixed 42.6 SusWrite 34.3 37% 49.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.8 169% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 29.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x1GB 54,972 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 4 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DRAM Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	17% Very poor	MC Read 5.6 MC Write 5.9 MC Mixed 5 16% 5.5 GB/s	SC Read 1.8 SC Write 3.1 SC Mixed 3.5 8% 2.8 GB/s	Latency 90.4 44% 90.4 ns
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17% Great: 28%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 4%

Tree trunk

Desktop 52%

Yacht

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $161Bench 49%, 34,093 samples	5x
Core2 QuadIntel $90Bench 43%, 5,765 samples	3x
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	3x

GPU
GTX 460Nvidia $203Bench 12%, 31,648 samples	2x
Radeon HD 4870-X2 (Crossfire Disabled)ATIBench 7%, 438 samples	2x
GeForce GTX 555NvidiaBench 11%, 717 samples	2x

SSD
Sol id State Dis 512GBSpccBench 52%, 11 samples	4x
M500 240GBCrucial $54Bench 77%, 31,779 samples	3x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	2x

Value: 33% - Below average

Total price: $364

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