Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 29% Raft	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 37.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	8.27% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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	3GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 3GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 6400 5,556 User benchmarks, average bench 35% LGA 775, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.15 GHz, turbo 2.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	37.6% Below average	Memory 67.4 1-Core 26.9 2-Core 52.3 34% 48.9 Pts	4-Core 47.3 8-Core 54.1 7% 50.7 Pts	64-Core 52 3% 52 Pts
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 41%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI HD 4870 22,563 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Asus(1043 026A) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.97.10.6 Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	8.27% Terrible	Lighting 11.3 Reflection 12 Parallax 8.1 9% 10.5 fps	MRender 7.8 Gravity 7.8 Splatting 8 6% 7.87 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 8.27% Great: 12%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 129GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC38 SusWrite @10s intervals: 66 90 83 94 91 91 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	28.8% Poor	Read 14.5 Write 17.7 Mixed 17.5 SusWrite 86 25% 33.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.5 79% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3x1GB 7,767 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 3 of 4 slots used 3GB DIMM DDR2 Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	15.8% Very poor	MC Read 5.4 MC Write 4.4 MC Mixed 4.6 14% 4.8 GB/s	SC Read 4.3 SC Write 4.5 SC Mixed 5 13% 4.6 GB/s	Latency 108 37% 108 ns
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 15.8% Great: 40%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 0%

Incomplete

Desktop 0%

Incomplete

Workstation 0%

Incomplete

CPU
Core2 6300Intel $40Bench 34%, 5,234 samples	1x
Core2 6400IntelBench 35%, 5,556 samples	1x

GPU
HD 4870ATIBench 9%, 22,563 samples	1x
G965 Express Chipset FamilyIntelBench 0%, 13 samples	1x

RAM
3x1GBUnknownBench 17%, 7,767 samples	1x
3GBUnknownBench 14%, 81,553 samples	1x

Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $40

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16