Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 42% Speed boat	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 32.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	28.1% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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 (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (40^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 650-$70 42,063 User benchmarks, average bench 46% XU1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	32.9% Below average	Memory 45.3 1-Core 42.5 2-Core 75.2 33% 54.3 Pts	4-Core 117 8-Core 133 16% 125 Pts	64-Core 133 8% 133 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 32.9% Great: 53%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7870-$203 42,130 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Sapphire(174B E241) 2GB CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.12.2 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	28.1% Poor	Lighting 35.6 Reflection 32.3 Parallax 46.8 29% 38.2 fps	MRender 28 Gravity 29.8 Splatting 36.5 26% 31.5 fps
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 28.1% Great: 28%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$35 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 41 (03) Spinup time 141 140 3925 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1175 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 29010 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1166 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1082 (C2) HDA temperature 103 95 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	41.6% Average	Read 79.2 Write 65.6 Mixed 31 43% 58.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.38 88% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905458-009.A00LF 1600EL Series 9905458-009.A00LF 1600EL Series 12GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1333, 1066, 1333, 1066 MHz 2048, 4096, 2048, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	23.3% Poor	MC Read 7.8 MC Write 7.9 MC Mixed 10.2 25% 8.63 GB/s	SC Read 3.7 SC Write 4.5 SC Mixed 5.4 13% 4.53 GB/s	Latency 179 22% 179 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 23.3% Great: 52%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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