Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 75%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	88.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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 (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	75% Very good	Memory 90.9 1-Core 97 2-Core 176 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 320 8-Core 487 50% 403 Pts	64-Core 483 30% 483 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6676) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.87 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 115 Parallax 107 92% 112 fps	MRender 95.8 Gravity 99.9 Splatting 97.6 80% 97.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 1TB-$130 602,853 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 626GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 912 483 507 510 511 423 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 81% Great: 133%
Samsung 860 Evo 250GB-$52 296,814 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 36GB free Firmware: 4B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 446 383 322 105 205 323 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	89% Excellent	Read 483 Write 450 Mixed 443 SusWrite 297 94% 418 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 54.3 4K Mixed 38.5 124% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 266 203% 277 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 128%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 388GB free Firmware: 0K05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 86 88 88 90 90 89 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	55.8% Above average	Read 105 Write 98.4 Mixed 64.6 SusWrite 88.6 66% 89.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1 194% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 76%
Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB-$750 12,067 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 437GB free Firmware: CC1F SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 93 91 94 93 92 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	54.7% Above average	Read 97.8 Write 100 Mixed 61.7 SusWrite 92.7 65% 88.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.9 161% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GB 17,012 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	MC Read 32.3 MC Write 36.9 MC Mixed 32.1 96% 33.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 14 SC Mixed 13.1 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 73%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 45%

Speed boat

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 39%

Jet ski

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $812

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