Doghouse Armor

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 45% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	78.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	41.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (62%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

System	Doghouse Armor (all builds)
Motherboard	Intel DX79SI
Memory	7.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140307
Uptime	12.9 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '21 at 19:19
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	62%

PC Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3960X 4,885 User benchmarks, average bench 77% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	70.3% Very good	Memory 84.8 1-Core 93.4 2-Core 176 69% 118 Pts	4-Core 301 8-Core 495 49% 398 Pts	64-Core 478 30% 478 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 496.13 Performing below potential (49^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.4% Very good	Lighting 96.8 Reflection 114 Parallax 101 79% 104 fps	MRender 98.8 Gravity 96.9 Splatting 90.4 78% 95.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 240GB-$28 424,288 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 104GB free (System drive) Firmware: R0105A SusWrite @10s intervals: 90 327 7 40 81 73 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	41.6% Average	Read 462 Write 409 Mixed 13.5 SusWrite 103 54% 247 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 8.5 4K Mixed 0.3 43% 11.2 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 5.5 DQ Mixed 1.2 32% 84.6 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 797GB free Firmware: JC4B SusWrite @10s intervals: 101 102 105 105 105 106 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	65.8% Good	Read 125 Write 117 Mixed 65.7 SusWrite 104 76% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 1 178% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 0x4B485831363030433944332F3847202020 2x8GB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	28.8% Poor	MC Read 7.5 MC Write 10.2 MC Mixed 9.3 26% 9 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 10.3 SC Mixed 8 26% 9.23 GB/s	Latency 72.1 56% 72.1 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 56%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical Armor Builds (Compare 10 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 62%

Destroyer

Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 55%

Yacht

System: Doghouse Armor

CPU
Core i7-3960XIntelBench 77%, 4,885 samples	5x
Core i7-3970XIntel $217Bench 78%, 2,677 samples	4x
@ 2.70GHzIntelBench 70%, 39 samples	1x

GPU
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	4x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	2x
GTX 780Nvidia $329Bench 45%, 50,279 samples	1x

SSD
520 Series 240GBIntel $139Bench 78%, 12,595 samples	3x
SHGS31-1000GS-2 1TBBench 98%, 11,576 samples	3x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	2x

RAM
0x4B485831363030433944332F3847202020 0x9801 0x4B485831363030433944332F3847202020 0x0205 0x3136303020434C3920536572696573 0x0205 0x3136303020434C3920536572696573 32GBUnknownBench 57%, 4 samples	4x
0x4B485831363030433944332F3847202020 4x8GBUnknownBench 93%, 22 samples	3x
0x4D33373842353237334448302D434B3020 4x4GBUnknownBench 92%, 20 samples	1x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

Value: 28% - Poor

Total price: $699

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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