Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 22% Surfboard	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 40.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	9.32% 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	2GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows however a minimum of 4GB is recommended for gaming or any other RAM intensive tasks such as photo/video editing. This system will also be a little more responsive with 4GB of RAM.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Duo E7300-$28 7,475 User benchmarks, average bench 39% LGA 775, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.65 GHz, turbo 2.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	40.5% Average	Memory 74.1 1-Core 37.8 2-Core 73.6 42% 61.8 Pts	4-Core 41.6 8-Core 61 6% 51.3 Pts	64-Core 68.9 4% 68.9 Pts
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 40.5% Great: 45%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 1,404 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Nvidia(10DE 0557) 1GB Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.1 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	9.32% Terrible	Lighting 12.6 Reflection 10.2 Parallax 5.75 10% 9.5 fps	MRender 10.4 Gravity 10.3 Splatting 7.43 7% 9.38 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.32% Great: 9%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung HD502HJ 500GB-$50 72,924 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AJ10001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 29 29 12 35 48 14 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	16.1% Very poor	Read 27.8 Write 57.2 Mixed 49.6 SusWrite 27.8 30% 40.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.4 104% 1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 16.1% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x1GB 68,489 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 2 of 4 slots used 2GB DIMM DDR Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	18.2% Very poor	MC Read 6.5 MC Write 5.3 MC Mixed 5.3 16% 5.7 GB/s	SC Read 4.6 SC Write 4.6 SC Mixed 4.3 13% 4.5 GB/s	Latency 92.2 43% 92.2 ns
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 18.2% Great: 20%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 6%

Tree trunk

Desktop 47%

Yacht

Workstation 5%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $161Bench 49%, 34,093 samples	75x
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $89Bench 40%, 68,540 samples	56x
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	38x

GPU
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	23x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	21x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	19x

Value: 52% - Above average

Total price: $189

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