Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 76.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	55.6% 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 (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500 82,538 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.7% Very good	Memory 91.7 1-Core 92.6 2-Core 181 72% 122 Pts	4-Core 357 8-Core 362 48% 360 Pts	64-Core 357 22% 357 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Sapphire(174B E324) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.8.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.7% Good	Lighting 76.5 Reflection 64 Parallax 83 62% 74.5 fps	MRender 64.6 Gravity 61.3 Splatting 80 57% 68.7 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 158GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 56 53 56 57 59 61 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	55.6% Above average	Read 354 Write 332 Mixed 212 SusWrite 57.1 53% 239 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 71.2 4K Mixed 31.1 113% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 29.1 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 39.5 39% 59.1 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 101%
OCZ AGILITY3 60GB 14,293 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 56GB free Firmware: 2.15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 60 58 58 58 60 58 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	40.7% Average	Read 150 Write 63.5 Mixed 89.1 SusWrite 58.7 20% 90.3 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 61.4 4K Mixed 24.6 95% 35.5 MB/s	DQ Read 26.3 DQ Write 60.4 DQ Mixed 29.9 27% 38.9 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 51%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 338GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 116 116 118 123 97 97 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	67.6% Good	Read 124 Write 117 Mixed 62.2 SusWrite 111 76% 104 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.9 188% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-002.A00LF 99U5471-002.A00LF 99U5471-002.A00LF 99U5471-002.A00LF 8GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	52.1% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 19 MC Mixed 16.4 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 16.5 SC Mixed 17.1 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 64.7 62% 64.7 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 52%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 35%

Jet ski

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 28%

Raft

RAM
CMX8GX3M2B1600C9 CMX8GX3M2B1600C9 8GBCorsairBench 51%, 137 samples	9x
CML16GX3M2A1600C10 CML16GX3M2A1600C10 16GBCorsairBench 48%, 91 samples	8x
KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/8G 16GBKingstonBench 50%, 248 samples	8x

Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $474

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