Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	101% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4930K-$90 22,204 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Memory 95.2 1-Core 125 2-Core 249 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 770 78% 634 Pts	64-Core 928 57% 928 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.12 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 129 Reflection 141 Parallax 120 105% 130 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 128 Splatting 106 94% 116 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 120GB-$29 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 63GB free Firmware: SBFK71E0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 229 55 107 56 56 56 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	69.2% Good	Read 393 Write 207 Mixed 272 SusWrite 93 54% 241 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 89.2 4K Mixed 25.1 125% 48.1 MB/s	DQ Read 162 DQ Write 322 DQ Mixed 135 133% 206 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 69.2% Great: 85%
Mushkin MKNSSDRE500GB 500GB 1,852 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 248GB free Firmware: P0614D SusWrite @10s intervals: 425 432 431 425 428 428 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 429 Mixed 343 SusWrite 428 96% 425 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 94.4 4K Mixed 47.1 161% 58.2 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 206 173% 251 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 103%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-$79 71,106 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2TB free (System drive) Firmware: SDM1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 95 105 99 100 96 101 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	54.9% Above average	Read 91.7 Write 127 Mixed 55 SusWrite 99.1 68% 93.2 MB/s	4K Read 1.7 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.5 169% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 2133 C9 4x4GB 514 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	MC Read 49.4 MC Write 36.2 MC Mixed 47.1 126% 44.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 16.4 SC Mixed 15.6 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 56.5 71% 56.5 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 127%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 40%

Speed boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

Sail boat

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	13x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	11x

RAM
4x4GBAdataBench 68%, 1,028 samples	23x
F3 DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 60%, 1,250 samples	7x
F3 DDR3 2400 C11 8x8GBG.SKILLBench 99%, 23 samples	7x

Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $738

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