Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 10% Tree trunk	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 9.35%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is terrible.
Graphics	2.56% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7 X 920-$90 998 User benchmarks, average bench 57% None, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2 GHz, turbo 1.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	9.35% Terrible	Memory 14.8 1-Core 6.7 2-Core 13.4 8% 11.6 Pts	4-Core 21.5 8-Core 32.1 3% 26.8 Pts	64-Core 32.7 2% 32.7 Pts
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 9.35% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro FX 880M 4,542 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Legend(17AA 2145) 1GB Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	2.56% Terrible	Lighting 2.87 Reflection 4.12 Parallax 1.22 2% 2.73 fps	MRender 5.71 Gravity 2.17 Splatting 3.35 3% 3.74 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 2.56% Great: 3%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$39 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 370GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0003LVM1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 70 65 76 57 83 86 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	48.7% Average	Read 97 Write 79.5 Mixed 50.8 SusWrite 72.6 55% 75 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.6 110% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 9905428-043.A00LF 4x4GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 1334 MHz Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	14.2% Very poor	MC Read 5.9 MC Write 4.6 MC Mixed 6.4 16% 5.63 GB/s	SC Read 1.9 SC Write 1.9 SC Mixed 0.8 4% 1.53 GB/s	Latency 361 11% 361 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 14.2% Great: 39%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16