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Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	7.74% 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	215% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 29 '17 at 00:30
Run Duration	215 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$148 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 90.6 1-Core 144 2-Core 284 95% 173 Pts	4-Core 526 8-Core 726 79% 626 Pts	64-Core 762 47% 762 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 872F) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.74% Terrible	Lighting 8.03 Reflection 11.7 Parallax 7.94 6% 9.22 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 7.13 Splatting 16.5 10% 11.7 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.74% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$74 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 131GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	215% Outstanding	Read 1,626 Write 1,124 Mixed 1,154 288% 1,301 MB/s	4K Read 57.9 4K Write 134 4K Mixed 40.1 210% 77.3 MB/s	DQ Read 491 DQ Write 383 DQ Mixed 177 203% 351 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 215% Great: 236%
Super Talent Express DUO USB 3.0 16GB-$22 28 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 15GB free, PID 0305 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	7.61% Terrible	Read 3.92 Write 23.6 Mixed 36.2 33% 21.2 MB/s	4K Read 7.9 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.02 30% 2.65 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 7.61% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.1% Very good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 27.5 MC Mixed 20 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 28.8 SC Mixed 21.9 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 66.4 60% 66.4 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 105%

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $148Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,920x
Core i5-7600KIntel $120Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,505x
Core i7-6700KIntel $127Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	655x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,192x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	910x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	851x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	396x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	363x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $100Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	251x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	800x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	345x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	164x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $710

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