Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.9% 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	128% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 94.7 1-Core 124 2-Core 235 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 680 69% 562 Pts	64-Core 662 41% 662 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1557 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 419.17 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 118 Parallax 105 90% 111 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 101 Splatting 91.5 78% 96.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 422GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 448 459 462 473 473 453 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	128% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 483 Mixed 364 SusWrite 461 102% 452 MB/s	4K Read 45.1 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 60.2 205% 72.5 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 348 DQ Mixed 362 272% 364 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 134%
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 60GB free Firmware: MU03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 261 264 260 266 265 264 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Read 436 Write 259 Mixed 302 SusWrite 263 70% 315 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 36.8 141% 56.2 MB/s	DQ Read 328 DQ Write 260 DQ Mixed 184 167% 257 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 91%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 149 150 149 149 148 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Read 158 Write 152 Mixed 92.2 SusWrite 149 101% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.9 180% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	60.3% Good	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.7 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 23 SC Mixed 19.3 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 57.8 69% 57.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 63%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 40%

Jet ski

Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	11x

Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $620

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