Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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	3.47% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 116 2-Core 227 82% 145 Pts	4-Core 410 8-Core 595 63% 502 Pts	64-Core 584 36% 584 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	3.47% Terrible	Lighting 3.7 Reflection 2.7 Parallax 7.2 3% 4.53 fps	MRender 8.8 Gravity 2.4 Splatting 5.1 4% 5.43 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.47% Great: 3%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Hitachi HDS721050CLA660 500GB 17,638 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 272GB free (System drive) Firmware: JP2OA50E SusWrite @10s intervals: 36 31 43 55 61 78 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	40.8% Average	Read 91.5 Write 81.4 Mixed 46.3 SusWrite 50.7 50% 67.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.7 119% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KVT8FP-HYC 1311 NT4GC64B8HG0NF-DI 8GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	58.6% Above average	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 16.4 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 19.5 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 59%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

Sail boat

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	9x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x
SSD Plus 240GBSanDisk $28Bench 61%, 133,640 samples	7x

RAM
CL9-9-9 D3-1600 4x4GBUnknownBench 59%, 242 samples	6x
9905471-065.A00LF 2x8GBKingstonBench 55%, 129 samples	4x
99U5471-056.A00LF 2x8GBKingstonBench 54%, 2,451 samples	4x

Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $303

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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