Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 96.6 2-Core 239 80% 143 Pts	4-Core 475 8-Core 467 63% 471 Pts	64-Core 475 29% 475 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 371A) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.1% Good	Lighting 76.6 Reflection 77.8 Parallax 67.4 62% 73.9 fps	MRender 72.5 Gravity 71.1 Splatting 70.7 58% 71.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Gamer L TA1D0240A 240GB 1,013 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 194GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM61.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 345 239 62 52 61 64 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	77.1% Very good	Read 476 Write 198 Mixed 318 SusWrite 137 62% 282 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 85.5 4K Mixed 29.6 128% 48.2 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 179 155% 226 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 95%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 112GB free Firmware: E7FM04.5 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 290 296 290 292 285 290 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	88.3% Excellent	Read 348 Write 294 Mixed 306 SusWrite 290 70% 310 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 77.7 4K Mixed 35.7 134% 48.2 MB/s	DQ Read 389 DQ Write 309 DQ Mixed 475 321% 391 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 185%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 547GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 188 190 190 190 189 189 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 174 Mixed 84 SusWrite 189 116% 160 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1.1 223% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL8-4GBXM 8313 CL11-11-11 D3-1600 12GB 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	35.2% Below average	MC Read 11.8 MC Write 11.7 MC Mixed 10.1 32% 11.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 11.5 SC Mixed 10.3 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 44%

Speed boat

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	58x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	55x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	54x

Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $391

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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