Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 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 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 94.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.5% 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	158% 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.

PC Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 140 2-Core 284 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 500 8-Core 764 78% 632 Pts	64-Core 759 47% 759 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3305) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2027 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 117 Parallax 111 92% 114 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 104 Splatting 105 85% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A1000 NVMe PCIe M.2 480GB-$175 12,594 User benchmarks, average bench 134% 373GB free (System drive) Firmware: E8FK11.T Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 467 483 520 521 521 521 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	158% Outstanding	Read 788 Write 852 Mixed 830 SusWrite 506 168% 744 MB/s	4K Read 35.9 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 54.6 191% 72.1 MB/s	DQ Read 922 DQ Write 741 DQ Mixed 811 613% 825 MB/s
Poor: 98% ↑ This bench: 158% Great: 162%
Kingston SHSS37A480G 480GB 14,802 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 80GB free Firmware: SAFM001B SusWrite @10s intervals: 286 416 493 489 489 488 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Read 481 Write 473 Mixed 313 SusWrite 444 96% 428 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 42.9 165% 65 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 356 DQ Mixed 67.3 127% 252 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 130GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 166 168 170 169 169 167 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	96% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 65.3 Mixed 78.9 SusWrite 168 88% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.8 146% 1 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMX4GX3M1A1600C9 0215 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMX4GX3M1A1600C9 16GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	78.9% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 24.4 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 26.4 SC Mixed 27.6 71% 25 GB/s	Latency 51.6 78% 51.6 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 78%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 10%

Tree trunk

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 9%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	158x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	157x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	58x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	51x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	51x

Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $469

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