Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 72.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	67.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66% 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.

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770K-$175 165,979 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	72.1% Very good	Memory 84.7 1-Core 98.8 2-Core 196 73% 126 Pts	4-Core 322 8-Core 466 49% 394 Pts	64-Core 507 31% 507 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 3669) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 416.16 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	67.9% Good	Lighting 87.3 Reflection 86 Parallax 82.8 71% 85.4 fps	MRender 81.2 Gravity 77.6 Splatting 69.4 62% 76.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M550 1TB-$700 1,628 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 264GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 311 396 283 159 158 158 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	66% Good	Read 426 Write 428 Mixed 306 SusWrite 244 79% 351 MB/s	4K Read 20 4K Write 67.1 4K Mixed 29.7 104% 38.9 MB/s	DQ Read 17.8 DQ Write 59.1 DQ Mixed 25.9 23% 34.3 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 109%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 5GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 116 Write 104 Mixed 60.3 69% 93.5 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.9 184% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 40% Great: 84%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 346GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 128 129 129 131 132 131 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	73% Very good	Read 124 Write 129 Mixed 72 SusWrite 130 84% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.7 129% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 43,127 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	56.5% Above average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 18.4 57% 19.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 17 47% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 72.3 55% 72.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 63%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 44%

Speed boat

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	58x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	55x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x

Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $391

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