Performance Results


Gaming 30% Sail boat	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (97th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 3 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	36.4% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	28.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3-$104 5,273 User benchmarks, average bench 69% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 92.7 1-Core 95.4 2-Core 184 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 377 8-Core 389 51% 383 Pts	64-Core 391 24% 391 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Zotac(19DA 1376) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5850 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	36.4% Below average	Lighting 47.5 Reflection 45.9 Parallax 40.1 39% 44.5 fps	MRender 40 Gravity 40.9 Splatting 37.4 32% 39.4 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36.4% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Vdisk Disk 2TB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 903GB free Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	29.3% Poor	Read 105 Write 103 Mixed 106 23% 105 MB/s	4K Read 13.8 4K Write 12.1 4K Mixed 15.2 47% 13.7 MB/s	DQ Read 90.5 DQ Write 91.3 DQ Mixed 99.4 72% 93.7 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 29.3% Great: 29%
Vdisk Disk 32GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 8GB free (System drive) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	28.4% Poor	Read 89.4 Write 103 Mixed 105 22% 98.9 MB/s	4K Read 14.4 4K Write 11.4 4K Mixed 15 47% 13.6 MB/s	DQ Read 88.3 DQ Write 81.4 DQ Mixed 91.9 67% 87.2 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 28.4% Great: 28%
Vdisk Disk 2TB 1TB free Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 1x8GB 37,489 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	34.9% Below average	MC Read 11.8 MC Write 11.8 MC Mixed 10.1 32% 11.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 10.7 SC Mixed 10 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 62.8 64% 62.8 ns
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 35%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 25%

Surfboard

Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 20%

Surfboard

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	13x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 49%, 26,466 samples	12x

Value: 52% - Above average

Total price: $420

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16