Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 3% Tree trunk	Desktop 44% Speed boat	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 45.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	6.45% 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	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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB 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.

Very high background CPU (57%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD A8-6500 APU-$135 7,219 User benchmarks, average bench 50% P0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.05 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	45.2% Average	Memory 70.1 1-Core 47.4 2-Core 79.7 43% 65.7 Pts	4-Core 117 8-Core 134 16% 125 Pts	64-Core 145 9% 145 Pts
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 58%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R7 240 + HD 8570D Dual Graphics 25 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Device(1B0A 90D3) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 13.301.1001.1001 Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	6.45% Terrible	Lighting 7.93 Reflection 9.27 Parallax 10 6% 9.08 fps	MRender 8.05 Gravity 7.73 Splatting 7.78 6% 7.85 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.45% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 848GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 168 2233 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2131 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5251 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2119 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 59 521601055 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 145 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1989 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	91% Outstanding	Read 150 Write 167 Mixed 127 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.31 106% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 109%
Intenso Rainbow Line 4GB 297 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 4GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	4.85% Terrible	Read 19.2 Write 6.64 Mixed 4.49 10% 10.1 MB/s	4K Read 2.56 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.007 10% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.85% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT325U6CFR8C-PB Kingston HP698650-154-KEB 6GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 1600, 1600 MHz 2048, 4096 MB Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	19.9% Very poor	MC Read 8.4 MC Write 4 MC Mixed 7 18% 6.47 GB/s	SC Read 5.2 SC Write 3.8 SC Mixed 6 14% 5 GB/s	Latency 101 40% 101 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 19.9% Great: 43%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 5%

Tree trunk

Desktop 51%

Yacht

Workstation 5%

Tree trunk

CPU
A8-6500 APUAMD $135Bench 50%, 7,219 samples	13x

RAM
HMT325U6CFR8C-PB Micron 8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 6GBHynixBench 38%, 133 samples	3x
ValueSelect DDR3 1600 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 52%, 4,966 samples	2x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 Hynix HMT351U6EFR8C-PB 8GBMicronBench 50%, 184 samples	1x

Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $155

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