Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 76.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	111% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Memory 84 1-Core 94.6 2-Core 199 72% 126 Pts	4-Core 396 8-Core 391 53% 393 Pts	64-Core 396 24% 396 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 456.55 Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	111% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 185 Parallax 194 113% 173 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 178 Splatting 128 117% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 476 Write 423 Mixed 395 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 95.5 4K Mixed 50.3 166% 59.9 MB/s	DQ Read 388 DQ Write 354 DQ Mixed 367 276% 370 MB/s
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 128 128 122 130 132 131 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	70% Good	Read 116 Write 113 Mixed 72.2 SusWrite 128 79% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.9 163% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 101%
WD WD1001FALS-00U9B0 1TB 3,876 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 242GB free Firmware: 08.01D00 SusWrite @10s intervals: 73 74 75 75 76 75 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	50.6% Above average	Read 101 Write 90.8 Mixed 65.7 SusWrite 74.9 61% 83.1 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.9 187% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya M2F4G64CB8HG5N-CG 4x4GB 550 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	51.5% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 16.2 50% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 17.3 SC Mixed 16.5 46% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 73.4 54% 73.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 53%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 24%

Surfboard

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 20%

Surfboard

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	41x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	34x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	34x

Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $624

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