Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.3% 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	382% 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 above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 92.7 1-Core 141 2-Core 283 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 528 8-Core 784 82% 656 Pts	64-Core 779 48% 779 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3250) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1595 MHz, MLim: 1774 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 441.87 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 119 Parallax 107 94% 114 fps	MRender 98.8 Gravity 104 Splatting 94.2 81% 99.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 1TB 11,317 User benchmarks, average bench 264% 892GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 1592 2344 1500 1183 1204 1202 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	382% Outstanding	Read 3353 Write 2,527 Mixed 1926 SusWrite 1,504 519% 2,328 MB/s	4K Read 68 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 84.8 284% 96.3 MB/s	DQ Read 1,604 DQ Write 1,460 DQ Mixed 1,493 1,131% 1,519 MB/s
Poor: 120% ↑ This bench: 382% Great: 445%
Patriot Memory 8GB 178 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 3GB free, PID 4100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 9.1 3.4 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.6 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	4.77% Terrible	Read 18.8 Write 11.7 Mixed 12.5 SusWrite 4.5 15% 11.9 MB/s	4K Read 4.5 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 17% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.77% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$78 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	77% Very good	MC Read 28.9 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 22.2 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 25.6 72% 25.3 GB/s	Latency 62.8 64% 62.8 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 107%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

Gunboat

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	10x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	9x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GBCorsair $560Bench 84%, 34,441 samples	6x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	6x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	5x

Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $982

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