Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding GPU, SSD
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
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	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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Extreme
Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3-$275 1,767 User benchmarks, average bench 62% LGA1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	66.9% Good	1-Core 99.7 2-Core 195 70% 147 Pts	4-Core 381 8-Core 380 52% 380 Pts	64-Core 382 26% 382 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 68%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Green 1.5TB (2011)-$126 3,316 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 987GB free (System drive) Firmware: 51.0AB51 SusWrite @10s intervals: 69 59 58 60 68 58 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	26% Poor	Read 28.2 Write 76 Mixed 14.5 SusWrite 62 33% 45.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.8 131% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 26% Great: 66%
Generic Flash Disk 16GB 7,572 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 3GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 6.4 7.6 7.7 7.6 7.7 7.2 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	4.34% Terrible	Read 17.3 Write 7.3 Mixed 4.3 SusWrite 7.3 10% 9.05 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 4% 0.33 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.34% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9965525-138.A00LF 2x8GB 118 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	60.3% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 18.3 60% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 18.4 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 61%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 54%

Yacht

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 53%

Yacht

SSD
SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $235Bench 175%, 5,591 samples	5x
SSD Plus 240GBSanDisk $33Bench 62%, 79,073 samples	1x
SSD370S 256GBTranscend $105Bench 87%, 6,798 samples	1x

RAM
9965525-116.A00LF 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 53 samples	5x
9965525-026.A00LF 1x8GBKingstonBench 28%, 21 samples	2x
M391B1G73QH0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 56%, 202 samples	1x

Value: 48% - Average

Total price: $625

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