Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	4.51% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	66.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 87.1 1-Core 117 2-Core 233 82% 146 Pts	4-Core 437 8-Core 582 65% 509 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5570 12,172 User benchmarks, average bench 4% Device(1545 5570) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 13.251.0.0 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	4.51% Terrible	Lighting 5.77 Reflection 6.08 Parallax 5.03 5% 5.62 fps	MRender 4.62 Gravity 4.33 Splatting 5.91 4% 4.96 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.51% Great: 5%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin ECO2 240GB-$109 340 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 147GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 32861622 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7060926234857 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 25 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 10 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 28 46 81607393308 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 81607393308 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 32861622 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 32861622 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 32861622 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 17179869184 (E9) Unknown 0 0 543 (EA) Unknown 0 0 212 (F1) Unknown 0 0 212 (F2) Unknown 0 0 109	66.8% Good	Read 378 Write 255 Mixed 307 70% 313 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 12.7 117% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 29.5 DQ Write 97.3 DQ Mixed 0.57 19% 42.4 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 Samsung M378B5173EB0-CK0 8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 12GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	44.3% Average	MC Read 15.8 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 12.8 42% 14.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.5 SC Write 16.2 SC Mixed 15.2 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 70.4 57% 70.4 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 59%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 9%

Tree trunk

Desktop 61%

Destroyer

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	1,382x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	309x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	261x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	102x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	84x
HMT451U6BFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 53%, 7,217 samples	79x

Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $231

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16