Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.7% 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	58.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 125 2-Core 244 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 411 8-Core 631 64% 521 Pts	64-Core 652 40% 652 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3250) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1645 MHz, MLim: 1914 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 417.35 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 120 Parallax 124 95% 120 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 107 Splatting 97.4 83% 102 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 64 51 48 46 46 47 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	58.6% Above average	Read 319 Write 56.5 Mixed 97.8 SusWrite 50.2 28% 131 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 66.7 4K Mixed 24 111% 40.2 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 89.2 DQ Mixed 23.9 67% 150 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 48GB free Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 134 136 136 136 135 135 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Read 156 Write 152 Mixed 78.3 SusWrite 136 96% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.8 150% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G KHX1866C9D3/8GX 16GB 95 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1333, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	64.1% Good	MC Read 23.7 MC Write 23.7 MC Mixed 18.6 63% 22 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 22.3 SC Mixed 21.5 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 59.5 67% 59.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 64%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	169x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $51Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	130x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	106x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	166x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	119x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	72x

Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $748

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