Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.7% 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	84.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 93.8 1-Core 131 2-Core 262 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 448 61% 454 Pts	64-Core 436 27% 436 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3772) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 512.77 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 172 Parallax 116 87% 132 fps	MRender 97.5 Gravity 104 Splatting 101 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel S3500 Series 240GB-$135 644 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: D2010370 SusWrite @10s intervals: 205 247 249 269 271 271 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Read 346 Write 274 Mixed 252 SusWrite 252 63% 281 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 94.5 4K Mixed 34 142% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 297 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 240 188% 261 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 87%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$72 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 81 87 89 90 88 87 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	51.1% Above average	Read 90.9 Write 87.2 Mixed 58.5 SusWrite 86.8 60% 80.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.8 153% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 57%
Intenso SCSI 1TB 453 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 919GB free Firmware: 0209 SusWrite @10s intervals: 29 30 31 31 31 31 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	18.5% Very poor	Read 34 Write 30.5 Mixed 28.6 SusWrite 30.1 23% 30.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.5 108% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 18.5% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX8GX3M2A2000C9 Kingston 99U5584-003.A00LF 029E CMX8GX3M2A2000C9 Kingston 99U5584-003.A00LF 16GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	61.8% Good	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 22.5 MC Mixed 19.4 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 19.9 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 60.4 66% 60.4 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 62%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 38%

Jet ski

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

Sail boat

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	61x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	45x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	40x

Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $595

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