Performance Results


Gaming 15% Tree trunk	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	35% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3960X-$265 2,165 User benchmarks, average bench 78% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Memory 82.4 1-Core 87.2 2-Core 154 65% 108 Pts	4-Core 318 8-Core 520 51% 419 Pts	64-Core 633 39% 633 Pts
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Asus(1043 83BE) 1GB CLim: 910 MHz, MLim: 1026 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	9% Terrible	Lighting 10.3 Reflection 15.2 Parallax 10.6 8% 12 fps	MRender 15.6 Gravity 11.6 Splatting 10.9 10% 12.7 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Agility 3 240GB-$199 10,165 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 156GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 96 102 95 108 96 93 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	35% Below average	Read 89.9 Write 101 Mixed 121 SusWrite 98.4 23% 103 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 28.3 4K Mixed 17.3 64% 21.1 MB/s	DQ Read 137 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 144 104% 134 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 35% Great: 66%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 784GB free Firmware: 1D05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 116 117 117 112 116 117 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	63.2% Good	Read 104 Write 111 Mixed 106 SusWrite 116 81% 109 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.9 185% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1600 C7 4x4GB 423 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	86.3% Excellent	MC Read 35.9 MC Write 34.3 MC Mixed 31.3 97% 33.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 12.4 SC Mixed 11.6 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 76.1 52% 76.1 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 98%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 53%

Yacht

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	33x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBKingstonBench 86%, 505 samples	20x

Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $881

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16