Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 25% Raft	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 21.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	0.79% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Extreme
AMD E2-3200 APU 422 User benchmarks, average bench 20% P0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz, turbo 2.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	21.3% Poor	1-Core 41.8 2-Core 88.8 30% 65.3 Pts	4-Core 85.5 8-Core 90.7 12% 88.1 Pts	64-Core 86.6 6% 86.6 Pts
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 21.3% Great: 23%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5450 36,960 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Asus(1043 3000) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	0.79% Terrible	Lighting 4 Reflection 4 Parallax 5.1 1% 4.37 fps	MRender 3.2 Gravity 2.5 Splatting 3.3 1% 3 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 0.79% Great: 1%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Hitachi HDS721050CLA660 500GB 6,910 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 432GB free (System drive) Firmware: JP2OA41A SusWrite @10s intervals: 71 88 91 97 92 112 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	60.7% Good	Read 120 Write 125 Mixed 61.6 SusWrite 91.8 73% 99.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.7 129% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT351U6CFR8C-PB HMT351U6EFR8C-PB 8GB 410 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	30.3% Below average	MC Read 11.6 MC Write 9.9 MC Mixed 12.4 32% 11.3 GB/s	SC Read 6.2 SC Write 5.2 SC Mixed 6.6 17% 6 GB/s	Latency 148 27% 148 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 30.3% Great: 62%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 11%

Tree trunk

Desktop 25%

Raft

Workstation 12%

Tree trunk

SSD
SSD Pro 1500 Series 180GBIntel $220Bench 68%, 4,269 samples	3x
SSD Plus 480GBSanDisk $58Bench 53%, 8,850 samples	2x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $70Bench 55%, 209,618 samples	2x

RAM
M378B5773DH0-CK0 1x2GBSamsungBench 27%, 130 samples	12x
HMT351U6BFR8C-H9 1x4GBHynixBench 26%, 994 samples	5x
M378B5773CH0-CK0 2x2GBSamsungBench 51%, 430 samples	4x

Value: 4% - Terrible

Total price: $220

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $65	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $63	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $613	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $24