Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 93.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	79.6% 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	158% 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.

Very high background CPU (66%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Memory 91.3 1-Core 134 2-Core 274 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 517 8-Core 811 82% 664 Pts	64-Core 960 59% 960 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Elitegroup(1019 1039) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.6% Very good	Lighting 98.8 Reflection 111 Parallax 92.5 80% 101 fps	MRender 94.8 Gravity 91.5 Splatting 97.7 78% 94.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 139GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF109C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	158% Outstanding	Read 1,401 Write 570 Mixed 805 203% 925 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 43.3 168% 65.5 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 419 DQ Mixed 99.3 144% 264 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 158% Great: 157%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 67 (03) Spinup time 159 159 25783959812 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 100 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 93 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 43 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 353 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 353 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 201864445987 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	102% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 181 Mixed 160 129% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.23 99% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-012.A00G 2x8GB 1,882 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.5% Very good	MC Read 28.7 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 21.1 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 26.5 SC Mixed 22.4 62% 21.9 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 86%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 72%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 66%

Battle cruiser

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	4x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	4x

SSD
870 EVO 500GBSamsung $60Bench 104%, 60,851 samples	1x

RAM
9905678-012.A00G 2x8GBKingstonBench 73%, 1,882 samples	3x
M378A2K43CB1-CTD 2x16GBSamsungBench 87%, 6,612 samples	1x

Value: 102% - Outstanding

Total price: $392

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