Intel U953

Performance Results


Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 39% Jet ski	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 34.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	8.48% 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	69.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Very high background CPU (32%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU. CPU throttled at 95% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

System	Intel Skylake Platform
Motherboard	Intel U953 (all builds)
Memory	4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160318
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 21 '18 at 05:05
Run Duration	128 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	32%
CPU Throttled	95%

PC Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6200U 135,462 User benchmarks, average bench 41% U3E1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz, turbo 1.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	34.5% Below average	Memory 52.6 1-Core 34.2 2-Core 58.8 32% 48.5 Pts	4-Core 97.4 8-Core 97.9 13% 97.7 Pts	64-Core 99.8 6% 99.8 Pts
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 34.5% Great: 55%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 940M 15,731 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Device(1991 5593) 2GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 22.21.13.8205 Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	8.48% Terrible	Lighting 10.9 Reflection 8.62 Parallax 9.12 9% 9.56 fps	MRender 5.57 Gravity 13.6 Splatting 8.78 8% 9.32 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 8.48% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 120GB 3,551 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4498 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 722 (B1) Unknown 98 98 33 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6964680091	69.6% Good	Read 489 Write 389 Mixed 409 96% 429 MB/s	4K Read 19.6 4K Write 33.9 4K Mixed 20.5 74% 24.7 MB/s	DQ Read 108 DQ Write 50 DQ Mixed 42.6 41% 67 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 112%
Hitachi HTS725050A7E630 500GB-$125 56,661 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 465GB free Firmware: GS2OA230 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 222 222 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 721 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 4458 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 721 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3203 (C2) HDA temperature 240 240 188978954265 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 130 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	70.1% Very good	Read 118 Write 126 Mixed 108 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.2 79% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C11 1x8GB 409 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 1 of 2 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	28.6% Poor	MC Read 10.5 MC Write 9.9 MC Mixed 9.2 28% 9.87 GB/s	SC Read 7.5 SC Write 10.2 SC Mixed 10.2 26% 9.3 GB/s	Latency 151 26% 151 ns
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 28.6% Great: 38%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical U953 Builds (Compare 5 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 5%

Tree trunk

Desktop 47%

Yacht

Workstation 5%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Intel U953

CPU
Core i7-6500UIntelBench 46%, 102,213 samples	3x
Core i5-6200UIntelBench 41%, 135,462 samples	1x
Core i3-6100UIntelBench 43%, 24,116 samples	1x

GPU
HD 520 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 4%, 362,113 samples	4x
940MXNvidiaBench 9%, 36,213 samples	1x

SSD
IM2S3138E-128GM-B 128GBBench 65%, 3,316 samples	1x
512GB 512GBSSDBench 87%, 6,819 samples	1x
SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $31Bench 183%, 9,202 samples	1x

RAM
16KTF2G64HZ-1G6A1 1x16GBUnknownBench 29%, 28 samples	2x
1x4GBUnknownBench 28%, 154,807 samples	1x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C11 1x8GBKingstonBench 30%, 409 samples	1x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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