Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	16.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	44.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB 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 (66%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-950-$100 36,389 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket 1366, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.05 GHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	73.7% Very good	Memory 96.5 1-Core 81 2-Core 161 69% 113 Pts	4-Core 281 8-Core 378 42% 330 Pts	64-Core 379 24% 379 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6870 25,443 User benchmarks, average bench 15% Sapphire(174B E177) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	16.9% Very poor	Lighting 22.7 Reflection 15.6 Parallax 21.5 18% 19.9 fps	MRender 13 Gravity 15.7 Splatting 20.1 14% 16.3 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 16.9% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX500 240GB-$29 142,801 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 181GB free (System drive) Firmware: M6CR022 SusWrite @10s intervals: 196 202 64 5 52 201 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	44.2% Average	Read 336 Write 201 Mixed 239 SusWrite 120 50% 224 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 22 4K Mixed 14.6 54% 17.3 MB/s	DQ Read 146 DQ Write 167 DQ Mixed 28.6 57% 114 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 44.2% Great: 92%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 676GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 105 108 111 111 110 111 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	63.9% Good	Read 113 Write 108 Mixed 88.5 SusWrite 109 77% 105 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.8 169% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 22GB 1,271 User benchmarks, average bench 38% null MHz 2048, 8192, 2048, 8192, 2048 MB Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	51.1% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 16.4 MC Mixed 15.3 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 14.3 39% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 52.3 76% 52.3 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 50%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 19%

Surfboard

Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $259

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