Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 28% Raft	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 32.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	1.68% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD A4-5000 APU 10,330 User benchmarks, average bench 27% Socket FT1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 1.5 GHz, turbo 1.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	32.6% Below average	Memory 50 1-Core 23.4 2-Core 46.9 27% 40.1 Pts	4-Core 89.4 8-Core 91.7 12% 90.6 Pts	64-Core 92.3 6% 92.3 Pts
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 32.6% Great: 33%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 8330 8,573 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Legend(17AA 3802) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 13.152.1.2700 Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	1.68% Terrible	Lighting 1.8 Reflection 4.23 Parallax 2.28 2% 2.77 fps	MRender 2.9 Gravity 1.7 Splatting 2.96 2% 2.52 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.68% Great: 2%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2012)-$79 15,506 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 428GB free (System drive) Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 85 83 81 83 80 84 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	48.7% Average	Read 86.8 Write 90 Mixed 44.5 SusWrite 82.6 56% 76 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.8 143% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471B5173DB0-YK0 2x4GB 26,681 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	18% Very poor	MC Read 7.5 MC Write 4.4 MC Mixed 6.4 17% 6.1 GB/s	SC Read 4.9 SC Write 4.4 SC Mixed 5.7 14% 5 GB/s	Latency 161 25% 161 ns
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 18% Great: 56%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 21%

Surfboard

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

RAM
RMT3170EB68F9W1600 1x4GBRamaxelBench 27%, 4,598 samples	6x
HMT451S6AFR8A-PB 1x4GBHynixBench 25%, 19,285 samples	5x
RMT3170EF68F9W1600 1x4GBRamaxelBench 28%, 4,466 samples	5x

Value: 24% - Poor

Total price: $45