Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	77.3% 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	51% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8500-$120 43,089 User benchmarks, average bench 82% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 91.9 1-Core 125 2-Core 251 87% 156 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 677 68% 550 Pts	64-Core 719 44% 719 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 432.0 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.3% Very good	Lighting 97.8 Reflection 100 Parallax 83.6 80% 93.8 fps	MRender 84.1 Gravity 89.9 Splatting 90.7 73% 88.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 120GB-$32 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 42GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFKB1E1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 97 20 65 25 61 18 MB/s Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	51% Above average	Read 284 Write 93.5 Mixed 175 SusWrite 47.6 33% 150 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 62.4 4K Mixed 25.3 99% 36.5 MB/s	DQ Read 151 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 96.2 86% 131 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 85%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 514GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 151 151 153 151 151 153 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Read 160 Write 160 Mixed 115 SusWrite 152 108% 147 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1.2 233% 1.7 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x4GB-$67 46,617 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 21.2 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 20.6 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 81%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 51%

Yacht

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 43%

Speed boat

SSD
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	49x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	28x

RAM
Fury 2666 C16 2x8GBHyperX $75Bench 82%, 134,977 samples	46x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-2666 2x8GBUnknownBench 79%, 17,908 samples	43x
M378A1K43CB2-CTD 2x8GBSamsungBench 80%, 29,586 samples	31x

Value: 92% - Outstanding

Total price: $395

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	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