Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 75.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	83% 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	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 (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 92.5 2-Core 161 70% 115 Pts	4-Core 323 8-Core 484 50% 404 Pts	64-Core 482 30% 482 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 418.91 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 110 Parallax 104 85% 106 fps	MRender 90.4 Gravity 98.3 Splatting 99.7 79% 96.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSA2CT040G3 40GB 1,759 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 37GB free Firmware: 4PC10362 SusWrite @10s intervals: 49 48 49 49 49 50 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	30.5% Below average	Read 195 Write 49.2 Mixed 73 SusWrite 48.9 20% 91.6 MB/s	4K Read 15.3 4K Write 25.3 4K Mixed 13.5 54% 18 MB/s	DQ Read 113 DQ Write 37.4 DQ Mixed 54.7 46% 68.5 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 30.5% Great: 37%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1TB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 176 173 180 122 180 186 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	92.4% Outstanding	Read 152 Write 216 Mixed 28.5 SusWrite 169 102% 141 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 5.1 4K Mixed 1.9 347% 2.67 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 110%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 540GB free Firmware: 1AJ100E5 SusWrite @10s intervals: 105 106 110 102 108 110 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	61.1% Good	Read 106 Write 49.8 Mixed 67.5 SusWrite 107 61% 82.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1.1 202% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 10,150 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	MC Read 31.8 MC Write 34.8 MC Mixed 31.7 94% 32.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 12.3 SC Mixed 11.7 37% 12.8 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 63%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 58%

Gunboat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

Yacht

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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