Performance Results


Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	0.7% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	80.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690-$51 73,695 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 89.8 1-Core 110 2-Core 196 77% 132 Pts	4-Core 413 8-Core 421 56% 417 Pts	64-Core 422 26% 422 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Asus HD5450 40 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Asus(1043 301D) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	0.7% Terrible	Lighting 0.8 Reflection 0.8 Parallax 1.7 1% 1.1 fps	MRender 0.6 Gravity 2 Splatting 0.5 1% 1.03 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 0.7% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 64GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 326 148 148 148 144 144 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	80.2% Excellent	Read 436 Write 395 Mixed 303 SusWrite 176 73% 328 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 48.2 4K Mixed 36.1 122% 39.2 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 324 240% 318 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 124%
Crucial MX500 250GB-$39 77,177 User benchmarks, average bench 101% 190GB free Firmware: 023 SusWrite @10s intervals: 393 406 409 408 273 212 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	94.9% Outstanding	Read 421 Write 397 Mixed 390 SusWrite 350 88% 389 MB/s	4K Read 38.2 4K Write 44.7 4K Mixed 42.9 136% 41.9 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 248 DQ Mixed 272 214% 299 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 123%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$39 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 580GB free Firmware: 1A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 85 84 86 87 87 87 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	49.6% Average	Read 86.2 Write 88.3 Mixed 65.2 SusWrite 85.9 60% 81.4 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 1 206% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 77,652 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	61.9% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 19.4 61% 21.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 20.9 SC Mixed 19.4 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 63%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

Raft

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 47,852 samples	37x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	35x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	31x

Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $533

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16