Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	87.5% 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	126% 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A43
Motherboard	MSI E3 KRAIT GAMING V5 (MS-7A43) (all builds)
Memory	8.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160526
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Jul 24 '20 at 05:35
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 2,254 User benchmarks, average bench 77% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	78.1% Very good	Memory 88.7 1-Core 92.5 2-Core 191 72% 124 Pts	4-Core 365 8-Core 519 55% 442 Pts	64-Core 526 32% 526 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3304) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 446.14 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 113 Parallax 95.7 90% 106 fps	MRender 96.7 Gravity 101 Splatting 101 82% 99.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 209 184 171 157 161 156 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	Read 978 Write 427 Mixed 484 SusWrite 173 113% 515 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 97.5 4K Mixed 45.1 162% 59.1 MB/s	DQ Read 968 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 352 318% 507 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 243%
Crucial BX100 500GB-$40 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 81GB free Firmware: MU01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 301 342 407 326 346 283 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Read 458 Write 399 Mixed 331 SusWrite 334 85% 380 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 76.3 4K Mixed 36.5 126% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 207 173% 248 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 108%
WD Elements 2TB 35,768 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 1TB free, PID 10b8 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 63 84 86 83 83 84 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	34.7% Below average	Read 102 Write 40.5 Mixed 39.5 SusWrite 80.5 82% 65.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.5 43% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 34.7% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	63.6% Good	MC Read 24.4 MC Write 23.8 MC Mixed 19.8 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 17.5 49% 17.2 GB/s	Latency 68.8 58% 68.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 80%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 47%

Yacht

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

SSD
PC SN520 SDAPMUW-128G-1101 128GBWDCBench 113%, 2,317 samples	11x
870 QVO 2TBSamsung $149Bench 102%, 41,734 samples	7x
Ultra II 120GBSanDisk $76Bench 76%, 9,139 samples	6x

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	17x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	7x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	5x

Value: 114% - Outstanding

Total price: $117

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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