Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 35% Sail boat	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 36.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	5.23% 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	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ 3,286 User benchmarks, average bench 39% Socket AM2 , 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	36.8% Below average	Memory 61.3 1-Core 26.4 2-Core 60.8 33% 49.5 Pts	4-Core 74.4 8-Core 71.7 10% 73.1 Pts	64-Core 69.3 4% 69.3 Pts
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 47%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT 20,826 User benchmarks, average bench 4% Gigabyte(1458 3482) 512MB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 8.15.11.8593 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	5.23% Terrible	Lighting 5.47 Reflection 8.31 Parallax 2.16 4% 5.31 fps	MRender 8.52 Gravity 11.3 Splatting 5.78 7% 8.52 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.23% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$90 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 44 56 68 71 29 30 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	21.1% Poor	Read 23.5 Write 26.8 Mixed 20.3 SusWrite 49.6 22% 30 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.8 145% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 21.1% Great: 58%
Hitachi HTS545050A7E680 500GB 66,048 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 113GB free Firmware: GG2O SusWrite @10s intervals: 30 31 31 31 29 28 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile)	37.6% Below average	Read 101 Write 29.8 Mixed 31 SusWrite 29.9 35% 47.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.6 112% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 58%
Maxtor S TM380815AS 80GB 79 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 49GB free Firmware: 4.AA SusWrite @10s intervals: 55 54 56 55 54 56 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	32.2% Below average	Read 57 Write 28.8 Mixed 39 SusWrite 54.9 33% 44.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.7 134% 1 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x1GB 54,972 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 4 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	11.5% Very poor	MC Read 3.9 MC Write 3.4 MC Mixed 3.5 10% 3.6 GB/s	SC Read 1.3 SC Write 2.6 SC Mixed 2.4 6% 2.1 GB/s	Latency 124 32% 124 ns
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 11.5% Great: 28%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 10%

Tree trunk

Desktop 55%

Gunboat

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

CPU
Phenom II X4 945AMDBench 51%, 12,746 samples	3x
Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+AMDBench 37%, 5,400 samples	3x
Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+AMDBench 39%, 3,286 samples	3x

GPU
GTX 650-TiNvidia $152Bench 14%, 36,698 samples	3x
GeForce GTS 250NvidiaBench 7%, 14,881 samples	3x
GeForce 9600 GTNvidiaBench 4%, 20,826 samples	2x

SSD
128G B 128GBSSDBench 50%, 87 samples	2x
PLUS 240 240GBSandiskBench 43%, 29 samples	2x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	2x

Value: 22% - Poor

Total price: $152

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