Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	94.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (84^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)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 113 2-Core 228 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 435 8-Core 419 58% 427 Pts	64-Core 453 28% 453 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4998) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 411.63 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 121 Parallax 108 92% 114 fps	MRender 99 Gravity 106 Splatting 87.3 79% 97.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 480GB 11,256 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 359 176 100 100 100 100 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Read 918 Write 504 Mixed 456 SusWrite 156 112% 509 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 50.8 4K Mixed 29 99% 34.4 MB/s	DQ Read 302 DQ Write 478 DQ Mixed 278 242% 353 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 182%
WD My Passport 0820 1TB 16,483 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 777GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 92 94 91 91 92 91 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	39.7% Below average	Read 90.7 Write 91.3 Mixed 55 SusWrite 91.5 111% 82.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 1 108% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 39.7% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 294 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	MC Read 25.7 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 23.1 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 21.4 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 50 80% 50 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 72%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 60%

Gunboat

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 49%

Yacht

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	107x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	101x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	65x

Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $626

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16