Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 28% Raft	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 29.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	15.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	3GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 3GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 8 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 53 User benchmarks, average bench 34% Socket 939, 1 CPU, 1 cores, 1 threads Base clock 2.2 GHz, turbo 2.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	29.7% Poor	Memory 55 1-Core 32 2-Core 31.8 29% 39.6 Pts	4-Core 27.9 8-Core 31.7 4% 29.8 Pts	64-Core 31.5 2% 31.5 Pts
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 29.7% Great: 50%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 5,537 User benchmarks, average bench 16% EVGA(3842 1470) 1.2GB CLim: 607 MHz, MLim: 837 MHz, Ram: 1.2GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	15.8% Very poor	Lighting 18.2 Reflection 28.3 Parallax 7.2 15% 17.9 fps	MRender 31 Gravity 15.2 Splatting 20.2 18% 22.1 fps
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 15.8% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST1000VM002-1CT162 1TB 39,407 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 741GB free Firmware: SC23 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 523 Write 23.7 Mixed 24.2 137% 190 MB/s	4K Read 230 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 2 9,809% 77.4 MB/s
Poor: 42% Great: 98%
WD Green 500GB (2009)-$23 63,281 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 265GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.00A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 16 23 23 30 44 40 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	28% Poor	Read 68.2 Write 61.5 Mixed 40 SusWrite 29.2 37% 49.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.4 82% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 28% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3GB 81,553 User benchmarks, average bench 14% null MHz 1024, 1024, 512, 512 MB Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	12.4% Very poor	MC Read 4.7 MC Write 3.7 MC Mixed 2.6 10% 3.67 GB/s	SC Read 5.7 SC Write 3.8 SC Mixed 3.1 12% 4.2 GB/s	Latency 143 28% 143 ns
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 12.4% Great: 23%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16