Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 97.7 1-Core 121 2-Core 238 87% 152 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 617 66% 528 Pts	64-Core 615 38% 615 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super)-$233 428,800 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Gigabyte(1458 4014) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2175 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 446.14 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	78.2% Very good	Lighting 98.6 Reflection 87.7 Parallax 82.6 80% 89.6 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 81.4 Splatting 76.4 74% 92.8 fps
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 76%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 SusWrite @10s intervals: 118 113 117 109 109 112 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	77% Very good	Read 416 Write 138 Mixed 184 SusWrite 113 47% 213 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 94.1 4K Mixed 41 150% 55.4 MB/s	DQ Read 191 DQ Write 137 DQ Mixed 123 103% 150 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 82%
WD WD5002AALX-00J37A0 500GB 10,663 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 30GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 78 77 73 76 73 96 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	50.6% Above average	Read 97.2 Write 89.2 Mixed 64.2 SusWrite 79 61% 82.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.9 161% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 72%
WD Blue 160GB (2007)-$22 56,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1GB free Firmware: 05.06H05 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 33.2 Write 32 Mixed 28.2 23% 31.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.7 126% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 18% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 2x4GB 9,036 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	83.9% Excellent	MC Read 30.9 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 26.6 86% 30 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 25.6 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 47.5 84% 47.5 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 84%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 40%

Jet ski

Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 34%

Sail boat

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	29x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	26x

Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $569

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