Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	12% 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	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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 8 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (79^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 870-$100 37,228 User benchmarks, average bench 66% LGA1156, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.95 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	76% Very good	Memory 93.5 1-Core 81.4 2-Core 163 68% 113 Pts	4-Core 325 8-Core 412 47% 369 Pts	64-Core 412 26% 412 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5770 37,602 User benchmarks, average bench 10% MSI(1462 2140) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 14.100.0.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	12% Very poor	Lighting 15.6 Reflection 12 Parallax 13.4 13% 13.7 fps	MRender 10.7 Gravity 11.8 Splatting 15.5 11% 12.7 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 12% Great: 11%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 796GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6280 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 774 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 873 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 379 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 62 471400476 (C2) HDA temperature 69 57 521732127 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1937648 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	50.7% Above average	Read 88.1 Write 88.5 Mixed 80.3 64% 85.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.3 85% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6GB 111,301 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 1066, 1066, 1066 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	21.6% Poor	MC Read 7.1 MC Write 5.6 MC Mixed 4.9 17% 5.87 GB/s	SC Read 7.2 SC Write 7.9 SC Mixed 6.8 21% 7.3 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 21.6% Great: 46%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 70%

Battleship

Workstation 17%

Surfboard

Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $159

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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