Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 28% Raft	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 27.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	9.35% 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.
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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Very high background CPU (32%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Extreme
AMD Phenom II X4 945 8,110 User benchmarks, average bench 36% AM3, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 3 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	27.6% Poor	1-Core 52.8 2-Core 95.1 35% 73.9 Pts	4-Core 121 8-Core 137 17% 129 Pts	64-Core 142 10% 142 Pts
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 27.6% Great: 41%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6770 10,811 User benchmarks, average bench 9% XFX(1682 3152) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	9.35% Terrible	Lighting 45.6 Reflection 29.5 Parallax 41.7 12% 38.9 fps	MRender 22.3 Gravity 34.3 Splatting 29 9% 28.5 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9.35% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
SH00R120GB 120GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: 02T130S4 SusWrite @10s intervals: 33 11 43 35 37 32 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples
Poor: 9% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$18 244,984 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 326GB free Firmware: KC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 128 128 128 128 128 128 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	69.5% Good	Read 114 Write 119 Mixed 57.3 SusWrite 128 76% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.8 138% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99P5471-002.AOOLF 99P5471-002.AOOLF 99U5458-001.A00LF 99U5458-001.A00LF 12GB 667, 667, 667, 667 MHz 4096, 4096, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	30.2% Below average	MC Read 11.8 MC Write 7.3 MC Mixed 11.3 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 6.3 SC Mixed 8.4 20% 7.1 GB/s	Latency 75 53% 75 ns

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 16%

Surfboard

Desktop 43%

Speed boat

Workstation 24%

Surfboard

CPU
Phenom II X4 965AMD $144Bench 41%, 34,476 samples	301x
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 39%, 32,165 samples	226x
Phenom II X6 1090TAMD $345Bench 42%, 19,143 samples	203x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 49%, 50,130 samples	28x
F3-10666CL9-4GBRL0 F3-10666CL9-4GBRL0 8GBUnknownBench 32%, 312 samples	25x
XMS3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x2GBCorsairBench 49%, 1,182 samples	24x

Value: 41% - Average

Total price: $199

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $80	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $58	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $613	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $24