Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.9% 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	44.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 118 2-Core 235 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 459 8-Core 455 61% 457 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.87 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 117 Parallax 110 91% 113 fps	MRender 95.7 Gravity 102 Splatting 103 83% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 37GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 81 77 77 78 72 76 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	44.1% Average	Read 103 Write 110 Mixed 105 SusWrite 76.8 22% 98.8 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 94.5 4K Mixed 18.2 106% 44.8 MB/s	DQ Read 83.5 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 72.1 60% 86.6 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 44.1% Great: 73%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 962GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 SusWrite @10s intervals: 107 112 111 110 111 109 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	60.7% Good	Read 102 Write 103 Mixed 93.7 SusWrite 110 76% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.6 123% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 67%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 774GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 109 118 118 116 117 117 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	69.6% Good	Read 126 Write 121 Mixed 77 SusWrite 116 81% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1 193% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GB 14,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	53.8% Above average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 19.2 MC Mixed 16.6 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 17.1 49% 17 GB/s	Latency 62.1 64% 62.1 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 64%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 37%

Jet ski

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 29%

Raft

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	138x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	131x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	105x

Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $364

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