Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	4.51% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	16.6% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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 way above expectations (87^th 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)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 114 2-Core 229 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 435 61% 449 Pts	64-Core 450 28% 450 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD Graphics 10 User benchmarks, average bench 4% Asus(1043 84CA) 3GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.10.5146 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	4.51% Terrible	Lighting 4.83 Reflection 6.35 Parallax 3.28 4% 4.82 fps	MRender 6.81 Gravity 2.67 Splatting 9.96 6% 6.48 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.51% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 180GB 136 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 76GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 71 73 70 79 76 57 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	16.6% Very poor	Read 232 Write 79.5 Mixed 63.7 SusWrite 71 24% 112 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 12.9 4K Mixed 0.6 9% 4.9 MB/s	DQ Read 5.1 DQ Write 13.1 DQ Mixed 4.6 5% 7.6 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 16.6% Great: 102%
WD Blue 400GB (2007)-$42 1,778 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 167GB free Firmware: 12.01C01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 66 65 67 67 67 67 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	37.7% Below average	Read 64.8 Write 59.5 Mixed 44.5 SusWrite 66.2 43% 58.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.9 168% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	61.1% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 19.4 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 18.7 SC Mixed 19.2 53% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 62.6 64% 62.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 63%

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	143x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	127x
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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16