Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


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 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 80.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.71% 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	31.6% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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 (100^th percentile)	80.1% Excellent	Memory 90.6 1-Core 109 2-Core 213 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 405 8-Core 394 54% 399 Pts	64-Core 403 25% 403 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 260-$250 11,945 User benchmarks, average bench 7% EVGA(3842 1263) 896MB Ram: 896MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	7.71% Terrible	Lighting 10.4 Reflection 9.15 Parallax 4.62 8% 8.06 fps	MRender 9.19 Gravity 7.6 Splatting 6.52 6% 7.77 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 7.71% Great: 9%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 120GB-$28 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 87GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK71E0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 112 51 44 156 52 154 MB/s Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	31.6% Below average	Read 191 Write 34.3 Mixed 122 SusWrite 94.7 24% 110 MB/s	4K Read 18.1 4K Write 27.6 4K Mixed 11.5 57% 19.1 MB/s	DQ Read 26.6 DQ Write 31 DQ Mixed 28.5 22% 28.7 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 31.6% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX Hynix HMT351U6CFR8C-H9 8GB 33 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	51.5% Above average	MC Read 18.3 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 15.8 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 12.4 44% 15.4 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 51%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

Sail boat

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	7x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	6x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	5x

Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $365

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16