Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	15% 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	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	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.

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 109 2-Core 214 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 418 56% 418 Pts	64-Core 412 26% 412 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 560-$180 23,273 User benchmarks, average bench 14% Asus(1043 83B5) 1GB CLim: 810 MHz, MLim: 1002 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	15% Very poor	Lighting 17.1 Reflection 20.3 Parallax 15.5 14% 17.6 fps	MRender 24.4 Gravity 17.5 Splatting 20.4 17% 20.8 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 15% Great: 15%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V+200 Series 60GB 127 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 37GB free Firmware: BBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 112 104 104 105 101 102 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	77.5% Very good	Read 384 Write 120 Mixed 188 SusWrite 105 44% 199 MB/s	4K Read 35.4 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 42.8 163% 60.2 MB/s	DQ Read 124 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 113 90% 125 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 80%
Seagate ST3750330AS 750GB-$137 3,651 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 323GB free (System drive) Firmware: SD15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 71 67 65 72 72 72 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	43.7% Average	Read 82.2 Write 81.5 Mixed 43.8 SusWrite 69.9 51% 69.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.7 139% 1 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT451U6AFR8C-PB HMT451U6AFR8C-PB HMT451U6AFR8C-PB HMT451U6BFR8A-PB 16GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	61.8% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 23.2 MC Mixed 18.7 61% 21.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 20.2 54% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 62%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 66%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	104x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	40x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	31x

SSD
MZ7LN128HCHP-000H1 128GBSamsungBench 73%, 5,673 samples	60x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	25x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	21x

RAM
M378B1G73QH0-CK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 54%, 6,401 samples	9x
CT102464BA160B.M16 2x8GBCrucialBench 54%, 2,915 samples	8x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	7x

Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $150

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16