Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	119% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

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PC Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 5.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 128 2-Core 228 86% 150 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 477 63% 472 Pts	64-Core 502 31% 502 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% MSI(1462 3750) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	79.9% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 94.5 Parallax 94.2 83% 97 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 88.4 Splatting 80 73% 91.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX500 250GB-$40 77,177 User benchmarks, average bench 101% 133GB free (System drive) Firmware: M3CR020 SusWrite @10s intervals: 420 434 446 443 439 438 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	119% Outstanding	Read 452 Write 435 Mixed 407 SusWrite 437 98% 433 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 55 187% 68.2 MB/s	DQ Read 385 DQ Write 349 DQ Mixed 276 232% 337 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 123%
Plextor M5S 128GB-$75 5,727 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 118GB free Firmware: 1.05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 209 208 209 209 209 187 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Read 477 Write 202 Mixed 224 SusWrite 205 61% 277 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 77.2 4K Mixed 36.6 136% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 289 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 175 151% 226 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 84%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 285GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 133 136 132 136 139 138 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile)	78.7% Very good	Read 138 Write 130 Mixed 91 SusWrite 136 91% 124 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 1 200% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	61.7% Good	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 22.6 MC Mixed 19.6 60% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 18.7 54% 18.8 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 63%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	153x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	98x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	48x

Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

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