Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 41% Speed boat	Desktop 42% Speed boat	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including moderate gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 54.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	46% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (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	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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Very high background CPU (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

System	Gigabyte AB350-Gaming
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming-CF (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170821
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '19 at 10:59
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	54%

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Extreme
AMD Ryzen 5 1400-$90 37,711 User benchmarks, average bench 60% AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 2.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	54.5% Above average	1-Core 77.1 2-Core 158 55% 118 Pts	4-Core 312 8-Core 511 52% 411 Pts	64-Core 524 35% 524 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290X-$549 26,378 User benchmarks, average bench 51% Sapphire(174B E285) CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 19.9.2 Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	46% Average	Lighting 0.1 Reflection 150 Parallax 277 0% 142 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 181 Splatting 168 48% 153 fps
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 46% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Toshiba MQ01ABF050 500GB-$32 64,616 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 394GB free (System drive) Firmware: AM003M SusWrite @10s intervals: 94 88 97 93 90 95 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	50.8% Above average	Read 84.2 Write 94.7 Mixed 31.1 SusWrite 92.7 55% 75.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.5 107% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 62%
Hitachi HTS542516K9SA00 160GB-$296 1,504 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 147GB free Firmware: BBCOC33P SusWrite @10s intervals: 55 56 56 56 56 56 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	32% Below average	Read 55.5 Write 56.1 Mixed 30 SusWrite 55.8 36% 49.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.7 119% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 32% Great: 30%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 109,451 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	73.8% Very good	MC Read 28.9 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 26.6 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 21.3 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 128 31% 128 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 86%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 55%

Gunboat

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $85Bench 106%, 532,443 samples	628x
A400 120GBKingston $25Bench 59%, 69,150 samples	321x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $100Bench 201%, 154,178 samples	296x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $63Bench 85%, 294,777 samples	685x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $80Bench 86%, 177,937 samples	232x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $58Bench 78%, 52,458 samples	195x

Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $530

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $80	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $63	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $643	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16