Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 91.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.8% 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	217% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (70^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 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.6% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 140 2-Core 290 97% 176 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 753 75% 609 Pts	64-Core 717 44% 717 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.6% 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: 432.00 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.8% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 120 Parallax 99.8 94% 112 fps	MRender 99.6 Gravity 103 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SA2000M8500G 500GB 87,883 User benchmarks, average bench 197% 437GB free (System drive) Firmware: S5Z42105 SusWrite @10s intervals: 575 642 871 836 828 835 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	217% Outstanding	Read 1,158 Write 1,021 Mixed 925 SusWrite 764 217% 967 MB/s	4K Read 61.7 4K Write 155 4K Mixed 85.3 285% 101 MB/s	DQ Read 763 DQ Write 810 DQ Mixed 348 383% 640 MB/s
Poor: 118% ↑ This bench: 217% Great: 277%
Crucial MX500 500GB-$53 237,241 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 268GB free Firmware: M3CR023 SusWrite @10s intervals: 219 282 349 349 346 328 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	106% Outstanding	Read 467 Write 430 Mixed 416 SusWrite 312 91% 406 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 45 168% 64.2 MB/s	DQ Read 386 DQ Write 351 DQ Mixed 295 241% 344 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 125%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 401GB free Firmware: 1AA01118 SusWrite @10s intervals: 68 68 69 69 69 68 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	37.4% Below average	Read 61.2 Write 50.3 Mixed 59 SusWrite 68.6 44% 59.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 1 178% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 37.4% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	MC Read 32.4 MC Write 33.1 MC Mixed 27.6 89% 31 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 25.8 SC Mixed 28.7 74% 25.9 GB/s	Latency 50.8 79% 50.8 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 88%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 10%

Tree trunk

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 9%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	158x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	158x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	59x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	52x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	52x

Value: 62% - 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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16