Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 83.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86% 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	29% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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 above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Memory 94.3 1-Core 106 2-Core 212 80% 137 Pts	4-Core 394 8-Core 694 66% 544 Pts	64-Core 877 54% 877 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 419.17 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 119 Parallax 106 91% 112 fps	MRender 96.3 Gravity 103 Splatting 84 76% 94.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 120GB-$29 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: 10D7 SusWrite @10s intervals: 42 88 95 47 31 55 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	29% Poor	Read 282 Write 141 Mixed 253 SusWrite 59.7 41% 184 MB/s	4K Read 12.3 4K Write 9.9 4K Mixed 9.1 36% 10.4 MB/s	DQ Read 138 DQ Write 7.3 DQ Mixed 14.5 25% 53.1 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 29% Great: 85%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$80 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 214GB free Firmware: 3A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 96 98 95 97 96 96 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	49.5% Average	Read 76 Write 76.3 Mixed 51 SusWrite 96.3 55% 74.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.9 160% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 3x4GB 161 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 3 of 8 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR4 2666 MHz clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	MC Read 40.1 MC Write 32.6 MC Mixed 32.9 101% 35.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 22.2 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 59.1 68% 59.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 94%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 82%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 73%

Battleship

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	77x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	49x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	38x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C16 4x4GBCorsair $210Bench 88%, 3,970 samples	31x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GBCorsair $154Bench 85%, 8,498 samples	29x

Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $1,103

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