Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	1.06% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	50.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (42%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7500-$89 149,467 User benchmarks, average bench 67% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 90 1-Core 111 2-Core 225 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 437 59% 440 Pts	64-Core 407 25% 407 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5450 66,079 User benchmarks, average bench 1% PowerColor(148C 3000) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.06% Terrible	Lighting 1.2 Reflection 1.9 Parallax 1.6 1% 1.57 fps	MRender 2 Gravity 0.5 Splatting 1.9 1% 1.47 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.06% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 240GB-$28 424,288 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 37GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFKB1D2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 37 68 91 76 24 31 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	50.3% Above average	Read 169 Write 105 Mixed 296 SusWrite 54.3 35% 156 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 60.1 4K Mixed 30 104% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 39.4 67% 132 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 100%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 221GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 SusWrite @10s intervals: 79 76 85 86 84 82 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	45.1% Average	Read 75 Write 57.5 Mixed 52.2 SusWrite 82 49% 66.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 150% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KVR24S17S8/4 017A 78.B1GS3.AZ30B 8GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2400, 2667 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	66.6% Good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 25.3 MC Mixed 19.2 67% 23.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 20.2 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 67.2 60% 67.2 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 67%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 37%

Jet ski

Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 30%

Raft

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	72x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	51x
Celeron G3930Intel $28Bench 48%, 9,606 samples	50x

SSD
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	18x
SM2280S3G2120G 120GBKingstonBench 74%, 4,240 samples	10x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	12x
PSD48G266681 2x8GBPatriotBench 79%, 6,425 samples	9x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	8x

Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $226

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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