Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	6.32% 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	121% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 88 1-Core 110 2-Core 223 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 560 62% 490 Pts	64-Core 557 34% 557 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 240 58,337 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 85B3) 2GB CLim: 780 MHz, MLim: 900 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 20.11.3 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	6.32% Terrible	Lighting 8 Reflection 9.2 Parallax 10.8 6% 9.33 fps	MRender 7.6 Gravity 8.1 Splatting 6.4 6% 7.37 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.32% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 870 Evo 250GB-$31 14,082 User benchmarks, average bench 101% 179GB free (System drive) Firmware: SVT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 355 363 354 348 368 367 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 489 Mixed 436 SusWrite 359 101% 449 MB/s	4K Read 51 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 52.3 206% 73.6 MB/s	DQ Read 382 DQ Write 345 DQ Mixed 276 231% 335 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 128%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 864GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 142 144 144 145 144 146 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	79.7% Very good	Read 134 Write 86 Mixed 80.6 SusWrite 144 82% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.7 137% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5474-016.A00LF 99U5584-005.A00LF 8GB 64 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	50.7% Above average	MC Read 18.7 MC Write 18.2 MC Mixed 14.9 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 16 45% 15.6 GB/s	Latency 69.6 58% 69.6 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 52%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 60%

Gunboat

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	266x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	209x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	169x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	98x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	82x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	80x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	100x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	56x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 1x8GBKingstonBench 31%, 37,489 samples	55x

Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $345

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	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