Performance Results


Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 15% Surfboard	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 28.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	3.78% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	24.5% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
Memory	2GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows however a minimum of 4GB is recommended for gaming or any other RAM intensive tasks such as photo/video editing. This system will also be a little more responsive with 4GB of RAM.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

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

PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz 6,937 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Socket 775, 1 CPU, 1 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	28.1% Poor	Memory 51.7 1-Core 24.6 2-Core 33.7 27% 36.7 Pts	4-Core 28.8 8-Core 27.4 4% 28.1 Pts	64-Core 27.7 2% 27.7 Pts
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 28.1% Great: 36%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5500 5,613 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Sapphire(174B E193) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 14.501.1003.0 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	3.78% Terrible	Lighting 4.9 Reflection 5 Parallax 3.9 4% 4.6 fps	MRender 3.6 Gravity 3.6 Splatting 4.8 3% 4 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.78% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk PLUS 240GB 86,316 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 139GB free (System drive) Firmware: FU78 SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 88 82 78 75 86 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	24.5% Poor	Read 118 Write 95.5 Mixed 88.8 SusWrite 82.9 22% 96.4 MB/s	4K Read 15.9 4K Write 19.2 4K Mixed 9.5 46% 14.9 MB/s	DQ Read 18 DQ Write 24.4 DQ Mixed 6.7 9% 16.4 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 24.5% Great: 56%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 283GB free Firmware: KC48 SusWrite @10s intervals: 98 94 106 104 106 111 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	63.9% Good	Read 120 Write 118 Mixed 53.8 SusWrite 103 72% 98.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.9 150% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1x2GB 99,586 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 1 of 2 slots used 2GB DIMM DDR2 Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	9.69% Terrible	MC Read 3.2 MC Write 2.8 MC Mixed 2.5 8% 2.83 GB/s	SC Read 3.2 SC Write 3.4 SC Mixed 2 8% 2.87 GB/s	Latency 155 26% 155 ns
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.69% Great: 26%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 1%

Tree trunk

Desktop 20%

Surfboard

Workstation 1%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core2 6700Intel $230Bench 39%, 2,388 samples	1x
Pentium D 3.00GHzIntel $98Bench 30%, 4,281 samples	1x
Xeon E5310IntelBench 34%, 31 samples	1x

GPU
GeForce 9500 GTNvidiaBench 2%, 27,834 samples	1x
GeForce GT 430NvidiaBench 3%, 22,369 samples	1x
GeForce 8600 GTNvidiaBench 2%, 8,099 samples	1x

SSD
0 250GBCt250mx5Bench 89%, 930 samples	1x
128GB 128GBSSDBench 65%, 7,332 samples	1x
SSD 120GBGigabyte $31Bench 70%, 13,685 samples	1x

Value: 41% - Average

Total price: $230

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