Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 84.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13.2% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	290% 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 above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 127 2-Core 229 86% 149 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 651 65% 531 Pts	64-Core 662 41% 662 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-Ti-$152 36,698 User benchmarks, average bench 14% Asus(1043 844D) 1GB CLim: 928 MHz, MLim: 1350 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	13.2% Very poor	Lighting 15.7 Reflection 14.6 Parallax 18.1 13% 16.1 fps	MRender 19.7 Gravity 18.5 Splatting 14 14% 17.4 fps
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 13.2% Great: 15%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 367,854 User benchmarks, average bench 276% 436GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXM7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 2193 860 820 815 819 821 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	290% Outstanding	Read 2,220 Write 1,980 Mixed 1,492 SusWrite 1,055 378% 1,687 MB/s	4K Read 63.2 4K Write 180 4K Mixed 89.7 306% 111 MB/s	DQ Read 1,108 DQ Write 757 DQ Mixed 994 725% 953 MB/s
Poor: 178% ↑ This bench: 290% Great: 355%
Philips USB Flash Drive 127GB 41 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 77GB free, PID 5500 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 92 92 92 80 86 92 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	38.5% Below average	Read 113 Write 59.2 Mixed 13.4 SusWrite 89 84% 68.6 MB/s	4K Read 10.5 4K Write 0.1 4K Mixed 0.1 46% 3.57 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair ValueSelect DDR3 1600 C11 2x8GB 4,966 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	59.1% Above average	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 21.3 MC Mixed 16.7 57% 19.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 23 SC Mixed 20.3 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 61%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 10%

Tree trunk

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 9%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	158x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	157x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	58x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	51x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	51x

Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $469

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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