Performance Results


Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 83.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	1.06% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	70.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$65 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Memory 90.1 1-Core 114 2-Core 232 82% 145 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 584 63% 501 Pts	64-Core 586 36% 586 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5450 66,079 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Device(1545 5450) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.06% Terrible	Lighting 1.2 Reflection 1.9 Parallax 1.6 1% 1.57 fps	MRender 2 Gravity 0.5 Splatting 1.9 1% 1.47 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.06% Great: 1%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 530 Series 180GB 4,011 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 118GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC32 SusWrite @10s intervals: 139 189 189 188 178 183 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Read 312 Write 192 Mixed 219 SusWrite 178 50% 225 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 69.8 4K Mixed 35 123% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 273 DQ Write 143 DQ Mixed 124 114% 180 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 82%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5173DB0-CK0 Kingston 99U5474-026.A00LF M378B5173DB0-CK0 Kingston 9905584-014.A00LF 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	52.3% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 15.7 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 18.2 50% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 67.1 60% 67.1 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 52%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 39%

Jet ski

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	137x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	107x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	84x

RAM
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	49x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	14x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	11x

Value: 65% - Good

Total price: $388

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16