Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 89.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	11.9% 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	609% 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.

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 118 2-Core 236 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 592 68% 529 Pts	64-Core 596 37% 596 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 380-$200 83,027 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Asus(1043 04E3) CLim: 990 MHz, MLim: 1425 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 18.12.3 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	11.9% Very poor	Lighting 0.07 Reflection 51.8 Parallax 55.6 0% 35.8 fps	MRender 51.1 Gravity 42.8 Splatting 37 35% 43.6 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 11.9% Great: 35%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M6e PCIe M.2 256GB-$208 1,444 User benchmarks, average bench 117% 165GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.03 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 348 349 365 324 365 353 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	609% Outstanding	Read 6,715 Write 378 Mixed 839 SusWrite 351 438% 2,071 MB/s	4K Read 431 4K Write 154 4K Mixed 215 1,010% 267 MB/s	DQ Read 818 DQ Write 19.1 DQ Mixed 50.4 128% 296 MB/s
Poor: 87% ↑ This bench: 609% Great: 129%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 256GB 13,747 User benchmarks, average bench 120% 74GB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 353 222 173 154 199 362 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	64.2% Good	Read 418 Write 368 Mixed 318 SusWrite 244 76% 337 MB/s	4K Read 17.1 4K Write 48.9 4K Mixed 20.9 79% 29 MB/s	DQ Read 246 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 47.8 74% 142 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 237%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 340GB free Firmware: JC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 118 121 120 120 121 120 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	69% Good	Read 120 Write 116 Mixed 63.8 SusWrite 120 77% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 1.1 188% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 5,448 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	60.4% Good	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 21.3 MC Mixed 18.9 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 20.8 SC Mixed 20.4 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 86%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 35%

Sail boat

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	18x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	13x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 5,347 samples	11x

Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $766

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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