Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 8% 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 81.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	3.44% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	78.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

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 i5-3550-$335 23,599 User benchmarks, average bench 69% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	81.4% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 106 2-Core 209 79% 136 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 408 54% 405 Pts	64-Core 402 25% 402 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 430 22,369 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Zotac(19DA 2199) 1GB CLim: 700 MHz, MLim: 333 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	3.44% Terrible	Lighting 4.27 Reflection 4.92 Parallax 3.31 4% 4.17 fps	MRender 5.52 Gravity 4.23 Splatting 3.09 3% 4.28 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.44% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 194GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 369 302 312 313 307 312 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	78.1% Very good	Read 380 Write 352 Mixed 314 SusWrite 319 77% 341 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 54.2 4K Mixed 39.7 127% 41.7 MB/s	DQ Read 41.5 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 55.8 49% 70.6 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 124%
WD VelociRaptor 1TB-$268 8,165 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 931GB free Firmware: 04.06A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 195 194 195 197 197 196 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	114% Outstanding	Read 202 Write 192 Mixed 110 SusWrite 196 128% 175 MB/s	4K Read 1.7 4K Write 4.6 4K Mixed 1.7 345% 2.67 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 117%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905471-011.A00LF 99U5471-025.A00LF 9905471-011.A00LF 99U5471-025.A00LF 16GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	55.2% Above average	MC Read 19.4 MC Write 19.8 MC Mixed 16.8 53% 18.7 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 18.1 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 61.7 65% 61.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 55%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 24%

Surfboard

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 20%

Surfboard

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	26x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	19x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	18x

Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $494

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