Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.2% 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	375% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	88% Excellent	Memory 83.8 1-Core 141 2-Core 262 90% 162 Pts	4-Core 496 8-Core 757 78% 626 Pts	64-Core 766 47% 766 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 512.59 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.2% Excellent	Lighting 100 Reflection 117 Parallax 104 82% 107 fps	MRender 95.5 Gravity 106 Splatting 102 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 0GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 2218 779 778 779 784 782 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	375% Outstanding	Read 2,741 Write 2,148 Mixed 1,934 SusWrite 1,020 438% 1,961 MB/s	4K Read 78.4 4K Write 262 4K Mixed 114 404% 152 MB/s	DQ Read 1,798 DQ Write 1,712 DQ Mixed 1,716 1,299% 1,742 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 375% Great: 340%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 0GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 366 154 156 155 155 154 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 480 Write 462 Mixed 422 SusWrite 190 87% 388 MB/s	4K Read 35.8 4K Write 149 4K Mixed 61.6 212% 82 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 344 DQ Mixed 354 267% 358 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 115%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 0GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 147 145 148 148 148 148 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Read 161 Write 153 Mixed 90 SusWrite 147 101% 138 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1.1 223% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Group Inc. Team-Elite-2400 2x8GB 280 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2473 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.6% Good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 20.8 65% 22.9 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 32.7 SC Mixed 25.8 72% 25.2 GB/s	Latency 73.8 54% 73.8 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 88%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	246x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	138x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	311x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	256x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	132x

Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $645

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16