Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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	83.9% 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	225% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	14.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20151110
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 21 '16 at 11:02
Run Duration	83 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 92.1 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 513 8-Core 748 79% 630 Pts	64-Core 748 46% 748 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5891 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	83.9% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 116 Parallax 111 88% 112 fps	MRender 94.6 Gravity 98.8 Splatting 85.9 76% 93.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 87%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 446GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	225% Outstanding	Read 1,878 Write 1,461 Mixed 1,507 359% 1,615 MB/s	4K Read 36.4 4K Write 200 4K Mixed 24.9 193% 87.1 MB/s	DQ Read 43.9 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 27.8 48% 89.6 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 225% Great: 283%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot 3200 C16 Series 2x8GB 11,608 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	43.1% Average	MC Read 14.8 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 12.3 40% 13.9 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 15.5 SC Mixed 15.5 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 108%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	345x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $972

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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