Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	90.6% 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	144% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	68.5% Good	Memory 81.3 1-Core 89.1 2-Core 201 70% 124 Pts	4-Core 300 8-Core 580 52% 440 Pts	64-Core 584 36% 584 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6686) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.20 Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	90.6% Outstanding	Lighting 105 Reflection 142 Parallax 130 85% 125 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 144 Splatting 112 101% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 367,854 User benchmarks, average bench 276% 364GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXM7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 455 477 513 508 525 534 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	144% Outstanding	Read 652 Write 524 Mixed 567 SusWrite 502 126% 561 MB/s	4K Read 47.3 4K Write 76.8 4K Mixed 61.1 191% 61.7 MB/s	DQ Read 682 DQ Write 531 DQ Mixed 583 443% 599 MB/s
Poor: 178% ↑ This bench: 144% Great: 355%
WD WD6003FZBX-00K5WB0 6TB 9,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 4.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 247 243 238 245 243 240 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	139% Outstanding	Read 240 Write 242 Mixed 106 SusWrite 243 151% 208 MB/s	4K Read 1.5 4K Write 6 4K Mixed 1.6 351% 3.03 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 139% Great: 138%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 85 93 93 93 93 93 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	52.6% Above average	Read 91.3 Write 85 Mixed 83.3 SusWrite 91.6 65% 87.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.7 144% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-559.A00LF 2x8GB 3,453 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	49.9% Average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.5 MC Mixed 15.6 50% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 11.9 SC Write 17.9 SC Mixed 14.7 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 78.1 51% 78.1 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 60%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 39%

Jet ski

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	91x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	46x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	35x

Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $567

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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