Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, GPU, SSD, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (90%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Duo E8400-$89 68,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% CPU1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3 GHz Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 41 2-Core 53 23% 47 Pts	4-Core 71.7 8-Core 88.2 10% 79.9 Pts	64-Core 92.4 6% 92.4 Pts
Poor: 24% Great: 47%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon HD 4550 3,005 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Gigabyte(1458 21AE) 512MB Driver: atidxx32 Ver. 8.56.1.16 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 1% Great: 1%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate ST31000525SV 1TB-$155 2,311 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 838GB free (System drive) Firmware: CV11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 100 134588635 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 74 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 598337 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 43 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 36 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 61 57 656015399 (C2) HDA temperature 39 43 34359738407 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 49 134588635 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	58.7% Above average	Read 92.8 Write 112 Mixed 46.8 62% 84 MB/s	4K Read 0.12 4K Write 0.23 4K Mixed 0.21 33% 0.19 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 70%

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 42%

Speed boat

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $89Bench 40%, 68,540 samples	5x
Core2 Duo E8600Intel $180Bench 44%, 6,109 samples	2x
Pentium E6600Intel $50Bench 39%, 5,119 samples	2x

GPU
GeForce GT 240NvidiaBench 4%, 11,020 samples	3x
Radeon HD 3800ATIBench 5%, 3,400 samples	2x
GeForce GTS 450NvidiaBench 7%, 25,436 samples	2x

SSD
Pyro 60GBPatriot $125Bench 38%, 630 samples	2x
THNSNF128GCSS 128GBToshibaBench 68%, 2,061 samples	1x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	1x

Value: 24% - Poor

Total price: $214

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