Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	3.9% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	53.6% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 89.5 1-Core 113 2-Core 221 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 568 62% 494 Pts	64-Core 520 32% 520 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 710 187,161 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 86CB) 2GB CLim: 954 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	3.9% Terrible	Lighting 4.6 Reflection 6.4 Parallax 5 4% 5.33 fps	MRender 6.5 Gravity 3.9 Splatting 5.1 4% 5.17 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.9% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 5 Volume 512GB 42 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 442GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 190 193 191 192 194 195 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	53.6% Above average	Read 465 Write 191 Mixed 243 SusWrite 192 60% 273 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 9.7 4K Mixed 11.3 63% 16.5 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 28.7 DQ Mixed 38.7 47% 88.2 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 134%
Intel Raid 5 Volume 1TB 403 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 151GB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 11 12 12 12 14 10 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	58.7% Above average	Read 193 Write 3.2 Mixed 20.1 SusWrite 11.8 41% 57.1 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.6 118% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905471-035.A00LF 0112 78.C1GET.AU10C 16GB 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	58.2% Above average	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 20.9 MC Mixed 16.4 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 21 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 66%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	56x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	37x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	35x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	22x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	15x

Value: 56% - Above average

Total price: $229

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	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