Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 83%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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 (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	83% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 120 2-Core 235 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 562 60% 480 Pts	64-Core 601 37% 601 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 445.87 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 115 Parallax 97.4 92% 109 fps	MRender 96.6 Gravity 101 Splatting 102 82% 99.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 11GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 438 Write 429 Mixed 272 84% 380 MB/s	4K Read 39 4K Write 92.5 4K Mixed 49.7 172% 60.4 MB/s	DQ Read 44 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 57.3 52% 75.6 MB/s
Poor: 65% Great: 110%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 314GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 143 141 144 145 144 145 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile)	78.9% Very good	Read 131 Write 108 Mixed 72.8 SusWrite 144 84% 114 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1 205% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	58.6% Above average	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 21.3 MC Mixed 17.1 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 20 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 97%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 6%

Tree trunk

Desktop 60%

Gunboat

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	167x
HD 4400 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 64,721 samples	87x
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	53x

Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $114

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