Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	112% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150919
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Oct 07 '19 at 20:22
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing as expected (55^th 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 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 131 2-Core 256 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 421 8-Core 658 67% 540 Pts	64-Core 668 41% 668 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 8546) CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 436.30 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	64.7% Good	Lighting 83 Reflection 80 Parallax 84.7 68% 82.6 fps	MRender 74.6 Gravity 78.2 Splatting 65.9 59% 72.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 125GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 405 330 300 292 288 217 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Read 412 Write 427 Mixed 341 SusWrite 305 84% 371 MB/s	4K Read 36.3 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 62.1 194% 70.2 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 347 DQ Mixed 356 269% 360 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 134%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 531GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 110 109 111 112 112 112 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Read 136 Write 106 Mixed 69.7 SusWrite 111 78% 106 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 1 200% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2133 CL11 Series 0118 8GBH2X04HAAA30-15 1302 2133 CL11 Series 0118 8GBH2X04HAAA30-15 32GB 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	59.1% Above average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 17.9 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 19.9 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 9%

Tree trunk

Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	44x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	40x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	27x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	18x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	11x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	10x

Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $699

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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