Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	1.16% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	46.2% 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.

Very high background CPU (68%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7500-$89 149,467 User benchmarks, average bench 67% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 89.8 1-Core 115 2-Core 233 82% 146 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 440 60% 448 Pts	64-Core 459 28% 459 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5450 66,079 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Sapphire(174B 3000) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.16% Terrible	Lighting 1.37 Reflection 1.92 Parallax 1.62 1% 1.64 fps	MRender 1.81 Gravity 0.83 Splatting 1.83 1% 1.49 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.16% Great: 1%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SSD 240GB 38,401 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM61.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 86 102 1.5 37 37 1.4 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	46.2% Average	Read 462 Write 312 Mixed 336 SusWrite 44.1 64% 288 MB/s	4K Read 39.4 4K Write 28.6 4K Mixed 0.5 76% 22.8 MB/s	DQ Read 222 DQ Write 2.7 DQ Mixed 191 119% 139 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 46.2% Great: 95%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	72% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 22.1 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 26.9 SC Mixed 21.6 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 80%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 38%

Jet ski

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

Sail boat

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	107x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	94x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	92x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	149x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	131x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	87x

Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $504

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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