Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 19% Surfboard	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 20.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	1.24% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD E1-1500 APU (2012 M.Za) 2,382 User benchmarks, average bench 24% P0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 1.5 GHz, turbo 1.45 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	20.1% Poor	Memory 34.9 1-Core 11.5 2-Core 35.7 18% 27.4 Pts	4-Core 32.1 8-Core 36.2 4% 34.2 Pts	64-Core 36.2 2% 36.2 Pts
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 20.1% Great: 35%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 7310 7,882 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Acer(1025 0592) 256MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 13.251.9001.1001 Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	1.24% Terrible	Lighting 1.7 Reflection 1.42 Parallax 1.34 1% 1.49 fps	MRender 1.38 Gravity 0.67 Splatting 1.39 1% 1.15 fps
Poor: 0% ↑ This bench: 1.24% Great: 1%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 894GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 122 128 115 128 130 114 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	76.5% Very good	Read 143 Write 151 Mixed 84 SusWrite 122 92% 125 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 1.1 234% 1.8 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5173QH0-CK0 Kingston ACR16D3LU1KBG/4G 8GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 1066, 1066 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	12.1% Very poor	MC Read 4.4 MC Write 3.6 MC Mixed 4.8 12% 4.27 GB/s	SC Read 2.9 SC Write 1.9 SC Mixed 2.7 7% 2.5 GB/s	Latency 227 18% 227 ns
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 12.1% Great: 54%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 25%

Raft

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

GPU
Radeon HD 7310AMDBench 1%, 7,882 samples	5x
HD 7470AMDBench 2%, 14,835 samples	1x
GeForce 605NvidiaBench 1%, 934 samples	1x

SSD
HyperX 3K 120GBKingston $100Bench 74%, 46,066 samples	2x

RAM
ACR16D3LU1NGG/4G 1x4GBKingstonBench 27%, 437 samples	1x
99U5458-036.A00LF 2x8GBKingstonBench 45%, 126 samples	1x
NT4GC64B88B0NF-DI 1x4GBNanyaBench 21%, 44 samples	1x

Value: 6% - Terrible

Total price: $100

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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