Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 72.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	24.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	137% 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	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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150421
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 03 '20 at 18:48
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	72.7% Very good	Memory 76.3 1-Core 108 2-Core 214 74% 133 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 403 54% 401 Pts	64-Core 392 24% 392 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 560-$500 60,738 User benchmarks, average bench 22% Asus(1043 052D) 2GB CLim: 1210 MHz, MLim: 1750 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 19.12.2 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	24.1% Poor	Lighting 28.2 Reflection 30.5 Parallax 36.2 23% 31.6 fps	MRender 30.8 Gravity 29 Splatting 35 26% 31.6 fps
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 24.1% Great: 25%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
XPG GAMMIX S5 512GB 4,125 User benchmarks, average bench 203% 342GB free (System drive) Firmware: V9001c27 SusWrite @10s intervals: 478 506 510 515 523 529 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	137% Outstanding	Read 736 Write 523 Mixed 547 SusWrite 510 130% 579 MB/s	4K Read 39.6 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 49.9 180% 65 MB/s	DQ Read 557 DQ Write 390 DQ Mixed 608 418% 518 MB/s
Poor: 87% ↑ This bench: 137% Great: 289%
Adata SU650 240GB-$70 47,016 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 163GB free Firmware: V8X01c62 SusWrite @10s intervals: 343 361 363 368 202 28 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Read 399 Write 365 Mixed 333 SusWrite 278 77% 344 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 98.1 4K Mixed 37.5 141% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 112 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 173 132% 173 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 99%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 477GB free Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 207 207 202 208 207 207 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 172 Mixed 28.5 SusWrite 206 108% 150 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 2 368% 2.8 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 1x8GB 29,968 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	31.9% Below average	MC Read 11.2 MC Write 10.7 MC Mixed 9.4 30% 10.4 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 11.1 SC Mixed 10 30% 10.5 GB/s	Latency 87.7 46% 87.7 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 31.9% Great: 40%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 39%

Jet ski

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	101x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	49x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	49x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	34x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	43x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	38x
KHX1866C10D3/8G 9905403-400.A00LF 9905403-400.A00LF 16GBKingstonBench 51%, 42 samples	24x

Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $505

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