Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 44% Speed boat	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 53.2%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	49.7% is a reasonable 3D score (GTX 1070 = 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	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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Very high background CPU (61%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 57,301 User benchmarks, average bench 72% Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	SC Int 84.5 SC Float 89.7 SC Mixed 86.1 69% 86.8 Pts	QC Int 175 QC Float 214 QC Mixed 252 48% 214 Pts	MC Int 310 MC Float 315 MC Mixed 290 46% 305 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$210 43,732 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Asus(1043 3006) 3GB CLim: 1070 MHz, MLim: 1600 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	49.7% Average	Lighting 156 Reflection 89.9 Parallax 208 54% 151 fps	MRender 68.7 Gravity 151 Splatting 98.4 46% 106 fps
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 52%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$89 45,618 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 911GB free Firmware: 1AJ100E4 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 11 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 72 72 8736 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3710 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14399 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3711 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 180389609498 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 35 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3730	69.3% Good	Read 112 Write 130 Mixed 106 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 0.99 4K Mixed 0.33 72% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 16,885 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	57.2% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 17.9 58% 20.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 15.1 SC Mixed 17.2 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 67.1 60% 67.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 62%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 60%

Destroyer

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 40%

Speed boat

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $90Bench 94%, 282,195 samples	199x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 96%, 187,338 samples	140x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $65Bench 47%, 117,422 samples	104x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 50%, 26,558 samples	188x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 49%, 25,783 samples	138x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 50%, 11,015 samples	90x

Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $745

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $183	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $75	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $957	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $30
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $193	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $18