Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	111% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

System	Gigabyte Z170X-UD5
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5-CF (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151021
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '19 at 18:51
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 128 2-Core 255 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 710 71% 578 Pts	64-Core 707 44% 707 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36CD) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.5% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 114 Parallax 101 86% 107 fps	MRender 88.5 Gravity 90.9 Splatting 86 72% 88.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandis SPS480G 480GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 353GB free (System drive) Firmware: X212 SusWrite @10s intervals: 394 450 435 449 436 443 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	111% Outstanding	Read 482 Write 449 Mixed 273 SusWrite 434 92% 410 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 133 4K Mixed 38.1 164% 66.8 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 312 DQ Mixed 161 171% 284 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 112%
HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB-$60 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 3TB free Firmware: MJAO SusWrite @10s intervals: 153 154 155 154 153 155 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 160 Mixed 39.5 SusWrite 154 93% 129 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.8 182% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 92%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Value DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GB 7,794 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.5% Average	MC Read 14.1 MC Write 14.3 MC Mixed 11.8 38% 13.4 GB/s	SC Read 12.8 SC Write 15.5 SC Mixed 14.7 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 79%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	19x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	18x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 81%, 12,182 samples	15x

Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $463

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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