Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 73%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	13.4% 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	178% 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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

18 months ago, 18 months ago.

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700HQ 473,208 User benchmarks, average bench 62% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	73% Very good	Memory 84 1-Core 98 2-Core 185 71% 122 Pts	4-Core 335 8-Core 513 52% 424 Pts	64-Core 501 31% 501 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 950M 38,813 User benchmarks, average bench 14% Asus(1043 17B0) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.2647 Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	13.4% Very poor	Lighting 16.6 Reflection 13.9 Parallax 17.5 14% 16 fps	MRender 20.1 Gravity 17.4 Splatting 12.7 13% 16.7 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.4% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
RX7 NVME 256GB 176 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 185GB free (System drive) Firmware: V0714C0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1033 1044 1033 1130 1156 1125 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	178% Outstanding	Read 1,474 Write 950 Mixed 840 SusWrite 1,087 243% 1,088 MB/s	4K Read 31.4 4K Write 86.3 4K Mixed 18.2 117% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 502 DQ Mixed 322 271% 387 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 178% Great: 211%
Seagate ST1000LM035-1RK172 1TB 452,134 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 931GB free Firmware: SDM1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 94 103 101 99 95 98 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	43.5% Average	Read 53 Write 112 Mixed 55.8 SusWrite 98.2 58% 79.6 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.5 123% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair SODIM DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GB 648 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.5% Good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 19 66% 23.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 24.9 SC Mixed 19.9 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 73.5 54% 73.5 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 89%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 9%

Tree trunk

Desktop 60%

Gunboat

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	88x
Core i5-7300HQIntelBench 57%, 170,871 samples	2x

GPU
HD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 310,249 samples	52x
GTX 950MNvidiaBench 14%, 38,813 samples	38x

SSD
256GB 256GBMidasforceBench 90%, 1,014 samples	7x
SNVS500G 500GBKingstonBench 186%, 34,043 samples	7x
WDS240G2G0B-00EPW0 240GBWDCBench 45%, 85,321 samples	6x

RAM
KVR24S17S8/4 Samsung M471A5244CB0-CRC 8GBKingstonBench 51%, 12 samples	8x
Vengeance SODIM DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 76%, 706 samples	6x
M471A5244CB0-CRC Hynix HMA851S6AFR6N-TF 8GBSamsungBench 58%, 22 samples	4x

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16