Performance Results


Gaming 45% Speed boat	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 68.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	60.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 (47%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	68.2% Good	Memory 92.9 1-Core 89.6 2-Core 160 70% 114 Pts	4-Core 235 8-Core 519 44% 377 Pts	64-Core 641 40% 641 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 461.09 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	60.1% Good	Lighting 75 Reflection 118 Parallax 73.7 61% 88.9 fps	MRender 79.4 Gravity 68.2 Splatting 67.4 58% 71.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Savage 240GB-$117 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM00.r SusWrite @10s intervals: 197 161 151 151 126 127 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	77.8% Very good	Read 164 Write 328 Mixed 308 SusWrite 152 54% 238 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 40.9 156% 59.6 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 67.2 118% 234 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 111%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 252GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 93 94 94 94 94 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Read 194 Write 144 Mixed 102 SusWrite 93.5 98% 134 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1.2 242% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2666C15D4/4G KHX2666C15D4/8G KHX2666C15D4/4G 16GB 34 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 2667, 2667, 2667 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	61.1% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 18.3 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 20.4 54% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 83%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	302x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	284x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $86Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	125x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	272x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	245x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	199x

Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $578

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16