Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 92.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	102% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8400-$131 312,220 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.2% Outstanding	Memory 93 1-Core 126 2-Core 250 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 492 8-Core 728 76% 610 Pts	64-Core 725 45% 725 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 1B81) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.8 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.9% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 107 Parallax 91.2 82% 99.8 fps	MRender 96.6 Gravity 94.2 Splatting 96 78% 95.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HP EX900 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$40 10,318 User benchmarks, average bench 183% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: R0802B0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 125 89 126 325 69 87 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	102% Outstanding	Read 649 Write 560 Mixed 560 SusWrite 137 106% 477 MB/s	4K Read 43.7 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 35.1 187% 74.1 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 13.3 82% 189 MB/s
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 248%
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB-$159 43,620 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 41GB free Firmware: GM4OA5CA SusWrite @10s intervals: 58 59 58 59 59 58 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	42.1% Average	Read 88 Write 81.5 Mixed 49 SusWrite 58.5 51% 69.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.9 162% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GB-$42 66,222 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 21.1 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 26.9 SC Mixed 23 63% 22.2 GB/s	Latency 62 64% 62 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 88%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 30%

Raft

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 25%

Raft

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	102x
A400 120GBKingston $32Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	54x
MTFDBAK128MAG-1G1 128GBCrucialBench 38%, 1,036 samples	32x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	44x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	41x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	35x

Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $189

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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