Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 70%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	79.5% 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	63.5% 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 (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (43^rd 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 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	70% Very good	Memory 78.8 1-Core 99.2 2-Core 186 70% 121 Pts	4-Core 333 8-Core 462 50% 397 Pts	64-Core 479 30% 479 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% MSI(1462 3750) CLim: 2160 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 511.23 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	79.5% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 99.2 Parallax 93.5 83% 98.2 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 92.9 Splatting 78 73% 90.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SA400S37960G 960GB 56,609 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 118GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK61F1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 69 87 104 109 111 28 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	63.5% Good	Read 229 Write 104 Mixed 313 SusWrite 84.8 41% 183 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 65.7 4K Mixed 31.8 118% 41.7 MB/s	DQ Read 285 DQ Write 301 DQ Mixed 210 181% 265 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 102%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 582GB free Firmware: HP34 SusWrite @10s intervals: 163 187 192 188 191 190 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	79.3% Very good	Read 91.7 Write 82.8 Mixed 67.4 SusWrite 185 78% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.8 143% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-066.A00LF 2x8GB 845 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.3% Average	MC Read 18 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 15.8 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 9.8 SC Write 14.8 SC Mixed 15.4 38% 13.3 GB/s	Latency 82.8 48% 82.8 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 62%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 56%

Gunboat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 46%

Yacht

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	1x

GPU
GTX 1660-TiNvidia $143Bench 76%, 318,562 samples	1x

SSD
SA400S37960G 960GBKingstonBench 70%, 56,609 samples	1x

RAM
99U5471-066.A00LF 2x8GBKingstonBench 53%, 845 samples	1x

Value: 107% - Outstanding

Total price: $278

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16