Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 89.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84% 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	283% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 137 2-Core 225 88% 153 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 681 70% 565 Pts	64-Core 699 43% 699 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 110 Parallax 93.3 86% 103 fps	MRender 94 Gravity 97.7 Splatting 97.2 79% 96.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 367,854 User benchmarks, average bench 276% 231GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1025 855 838 819 817 809 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	283% Outstanding	Read 2,315 Write 2,083 Mixed 1622 SusWrite 860 385% 1,720 MB/s	4K Read 61.1 4K Write 168 4K Mixed 83.7 288% 104 MB/s	DQ Read 1,150 DQ Write 1,037 DQ Mixed 1,022 786% 1,070 MB/s
Poor: 178% ↑ This bench: 283% Great: 355%
WD Green 240GB (2016) 20,831 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 222GB free Firmware: Z3311000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 398 226 126 115 115 115 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	68.4% Good	Read 416 Write 403 Mixed 356 SusWrite 183 76% 339 MB/s	4K Read 18.1 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 19.3 107% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 155 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 33.9 74% 149 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 164 170 167 167 169 174 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 133 Mixed 80.8 SusWrite 168 104% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.6 117% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	79.9% Very good	MC Read 31.7 MC Write 29.3 MC Mixed 24.2 81% 28.4 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 23 SC Mixed 25.4 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 55.5 72% 55.5 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 104%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 88%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 88%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

Battleship

RAM
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	213x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	121x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	66x

Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $658

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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