Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13.7% 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	300% 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.

System	MSI MS-7A58
Motherboard	MSI Z270 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A58) (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180630
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Aug 06 '19 at 06:17
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 87.7 1-Core 115 2-Core 223 80% 142 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 422 57% 424 Pts	64-Core 432 27% 432 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Gigabyte(1458 2556) 1GB CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 1125 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 19.20.17.01 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	13.7% Very poor	Lighting 16.7 Reflection 17.5 Parallax 23.3 14% 19.1 fps	MRender 14.7 Gravity 16.2 Splatting 19.3 14% 16.7 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.7% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 500GB 13,939 User benchmarks, average bench 179% 426GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 1873 1061 599 606 607 607 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	300% Outstanding	Read 3,065 Write 2,128 Mixed 1,500 SusWrite 892 421% 1,896 MB/s	4K Read 59.4 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 74.9 262% 92.6 MB/s	DQ Read 994 DQ Write 873 DQ Mixed 939 702% 935 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 300% Great: 313%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 720GB 861 User benchmarks, average bench 122% 638GB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 577 507 427 410 283 314 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	122% Outstanding	Read 1,407 Write 657 Mixed 301 SusWrite 420 153% 696 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 51 4K Mixed 24.6 93% 32.8 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 79.3 112% 206 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 176%
WD Elements 25A1 2TB 7,574 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 1TB free, PID 25a1 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 98 98 99 99 98 98 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	39.5% Below average	Read 95.7 Write 97.9 Mixed 54 SusWrite 98.5 117% 86.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.8 73% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 39.5% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2133C14D4/8G 8502 PSD44G240081 16GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	55.1% Above average	MC Read 19.5 MC Write 19.7 MC Mixed 17.4 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 18.1 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 69.8 57% 69.8 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 74%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 105%

UFO

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 90%

Aircraft carrier

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	13x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	11x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	13x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $161Bench 85%, 35,811 samples	8x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	6x

Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $854

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	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