Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	91.5% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Micro-Star MS-7B36
Motherboard	MSI B350 TOMAHAWK PLUS (MS-7B36) (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190122
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 06 '20 at 22:38
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X-$211 66,470 User benchmarks, average bench 71% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	76.7% Very good	Memory 76.4 1-Core 115 2-Core 233 78% 142 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 696 68% 555 Pts	64-Core 1,192 74% 1,192 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3232) CLim: 1631 MHz, MLim: 1952 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 445.75 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 120 Parallax 114 95% 117 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 108 Splatting 98.6 84% 103 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 292GB free (System drive) Firmware: 15.01H15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 64 48 71 90 89 91 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	56.7% Above average	Read 122 Write 112 Mixed 72.2 SusWrite 75.4 70% 95.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.9 162% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 69%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 144GB free Firmware: 0001BSM2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 80 78 80 81 80 72 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	46.4% Average	Read 83.4 Write 79.3 Mixed 48.1 SusWrite 78.4 53% 72.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.8 132% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 46.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2400 C15 Series 2x4GB 4,971 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 2400 MHz clocked @ 1200 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	90% Outstanding	MC Read 34.8 MC Write 33.1 MC Mixed 30 93% 32.6 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 32.6 SC Mixed 26.5 78% 27.4 GB/s	Latency 87.4 46% 87.4 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 91%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 46%

Yacht

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 42%

Speed boat

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	4x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	4x
WDS500G2B0B-00YS70 500GBWDCBench 93%, 43,498 samples	3x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	3x
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBKingstonBench 86%, 239,203 samples	3x
Fury 2666 C16 2x8GBHyperX $75Bench 82%, 134,977 samples	3x

Value: 92% - Outstanding

Total price: $385

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