Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 75.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	71.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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 as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7 870-$100 37,228 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket 1156, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	75.2% Very good	Memory 92.7 1-Core 94 2-Core 174 72% 120 Pts	4-Core 313 8-Core 452 48% 383 Pts	64-Core 416 26% 416 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 441.66 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	64.1% Good	Lighting 81.5 Reflection 83.2 Parallax 80.2 66% 81.6 fps	MRender 78.6 Gravity 75.5 Splatting 67 60% 73.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 117GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 148 181 208 216 216 217 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	Read 354 Write 219 Mixed 256 SusWrite 198 57% 257 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 47 4K Mixed 34.5 115% 37.3 MB/s	DQ Read 241 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 158 132% 192 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$79 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 582GB free Firmware: CC98 SusWrite @10s intervals: 110 109 113 109 112 113 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	53.9% Above average	Read 77.1 Write 90.2 Mixed 34 SusWrite 111 57% 78.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0.4 81% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	46.9% Average	MC Read 18.8 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 14.5 46% 16 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 12.1 SC Mixed 13.4 36% 12.6 GB/s	Latency 62.8 64% 62.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 97%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 71%

Battleship

Workstation 17%

Surfboard

Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $187

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16