Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 84.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.3% 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	92.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (30%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Memory 91 1-Core 116 2-Core 226 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 443 60% 447 Pts	64-Core 440 27% 440 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.3% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 113 Parallax 111 86% 110 fps	MRender 91.7 Gravity 97.4 Splatting 88.4 75% 92.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 158GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 335 198 186 210 178 176 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Read 469 Write 450 Mixed 393 SusWrite 214 86% 382 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 86.6 4K Mixed 40.5 148% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 353 DQ Mixed 365 268% 350 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 134%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 693GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 SusWrite @10s intervals: 98 98 97 97 96 97 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	43.7% Average	Read 55 Write 88 Mixed 63 SusWrite 97.1 56% 75.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.9 162% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 88%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 146 146 140 146 148 146 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Read 153 Write 138 Mixed 87.8 SusWrite 145 96% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1 197% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905402-532.A00LF KHX1866C10D3/8G 9905402-532.A00LF KHX1866C10D3/8G 24GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51.1% Above average	MC Read 17.2 MC Write 18.8 MC Mixed 16.1 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 15 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 52%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	142x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	126x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	114x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	55x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	47x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	43x

Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $472

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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