Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 73.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	70% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (39%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820QM-$275 3,135 User benchmarks, average bench 66% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	73.1% Very good	Memory 89.8 1-Core 96.6 2-Core 176 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 305 8-Core 479 48% 392 Pts	64-Core 475 29% 475 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 75%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (75^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	60.9% Good	Lighting 77.5 Reflection 76 Parallax 69.1 63% 74.2 fps	MRender 76.3 Gravity 67.4 Splatting 65 56% 69.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 324 185 175 206 206 191 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	70% Good	Read 414 Write 331 Mixed 296 SusWrite 214 70% 314 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 37.9 4K Mixed 24.2 80% 27.1 MB/s	DQ Read 379 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 240 209% 311 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 108%
SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16GB 8,778 User benchmarks, average bench 9% 15GB free, PID 5571 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 5 3.7 3.7 3.9 3.7 3.8 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	10.1% Very poor	Read 19 Write 13 Mixed 12.5 SusWrite 4 15% 12.1 MB/s	4K Read 3.9 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 2.4 157% 2.7 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 10.1% Great: 13%
WDC WD32 00BEVT-22ZCT0 320GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 110GB free, PID 2339 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 36 37 38 37 37 37 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	18.8% Very poor	Read 35 Write 34 Mixed 24.3 SusWrite 37.2 44% 32.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.8 90% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 18.8% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance SODIM DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 4,121 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	57.9% Above average	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 20.4 MC Mixed 18.7 58% 20.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 17.4 48% 17 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 60%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 7%

Tree trunk

Desktop 49%

Yacht

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 409,110 samples	638x
HD 3000 (Mobile V1 1.1/1.2 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 209,058 samples	41x
Radeon HD 7600MAMDBench 4%, 7,895 samples	7x

RAM
HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 50%, 25,458 samples	64x
HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 1x4GBHynixBench 27%, 17,632 samples	45x
M471B5273DH0-CK0 2x4GBSamsungBench 50%, 11,714 samples	35x

Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $80

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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