Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 39% Jet ski	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 37.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	9.76% 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	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	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.

Very high background CPU (53%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X4 840-$150 5,147 User benchmarks, average bench 47% CPU1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	37.5% Below average	Memory 52 1-Core 44.2 2-Core 90.1 38% 62.1 Pts	4-Core 132 8-Core 147 18% 140 Pts	64-Core 151 9% 151 Pts
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 37.5% Great: 55%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% EVGA(3842 1554) 1GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7290 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	9.76% Terrible	Lighting 10.9 Reflection 12.8 Parallax 9.22 9% 11 fps	MRender 15.1 Gravity 11.6 Splatting 14.9 12% 13.9 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.76% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 188GB free (System drive) Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 4 (03) Spinup time 253 187 1116 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5038 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13607 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4755 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 207 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 173 173 82972 (C2) HDA temperature 116 99 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	51.8% Above average	Read 89.4 Write 91 Mixed 23.8 50% 68 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 59%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 16GB 13,169 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 7GB free, PID 1665 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	6.16% Terrible	Read 21.7 Write 2.9 Mixed 4.61 9% 9.74 MB/s	4K Read 1.71 4K Write 0.64 4K Mixed 0.41 42% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 6.16% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10 Adata 12GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 4096 MB Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	23% Poor	MC Read 9.7 MC Write 6.3 MC Mixed 8 23% 8 GB/s	SC Read 6.8 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 7.2 18% 6.43 GB/s	Latency 153 26% 153 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 23% Great: 39%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 42%

Speed boat

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 1x4GBKingstonBench 27%, 3,879 samples	3x
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	2x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 1x8GBKingstonBench 32%, 29,968 samples	1x

Value: 32% - Below average

Total price: $220

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