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Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	12.1% 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	10.6% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V LX (all builds)
Memory	3.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	18.6 Days
Run Date	May 29 '22 at 19:26
Run Duration	253 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	79.4% Very good	Memory 95.5 1-Core 113 2-Core 226 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 364 8-Core 390 50% 377 Pts	64-Core 413 26% 413 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Asus(1043 03B4) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	12.1% Very poor	Lighting 16.5 Reflection 18.7 Parallax 14.5 13% 16.6 fps	MRender 12.6 Gravity 11.9 Splatting 10.3 9% 11.6 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 12.1% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Sandisk PLUS 1000GB 44,528 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 646GB free (System drive) Firmware: UH5100RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 42 2.3 47 13 39 1.6 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	10.6% Very poor	Read 92.5 Write 133 Mixed 6.5 SusWrite 24 14% 64 MB/s	4K Read 1.7 4K Write 3.4 4K Mixed 8.5 15% 4.53 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 10.6% Great: 58%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$19 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 207GB free Firmware: JC4B SusWrite @10s intervals: 82 83 80 82 83 83 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	54.6% Above average	Read 108 Write 102 Mixed 63 SusWrite 82.2 65% 88.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 1 172% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 27,024 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	63% Good	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 20.3 62% 21.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 20.2 SC Mixed 18.6 52% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 55.7 72% 55.7 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 63%

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Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 19%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V LX

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	503x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	435x
Core i7-2600Intel $173Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	202x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	135x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	126x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	109x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $25Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	71x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	44x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	69x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	55x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	53x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $330

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