Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	103% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	125% 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.

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	88% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 133 2-Core 262 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 680 69% 560 Pts	64-Core 729 45% 729 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 417.22 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 149 Parallax 127 108% 136 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 133 Splatting 112 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
CT500MX500SSD4 500GB 44,418 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 403GB free (System drive) Firmware: M3CR020 SusWrite @10s intervals: 405 394 467 471 397 389 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	125% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 402 Mixed 416 SusWrite 420 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 40.2 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 59.3 203% 74.5 MB/s	DQ Read 388 DQ Write 333 DQ Mixed 292 237% 337 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 123%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 126GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 151 152 149 152 145 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Read 355 Write 227 Mixed 219 SusWrite 150 53% 238 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 41.1 169% 66.8 MB/s	DQ Read 170 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 171 136% 187 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 85%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 479GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 121 127 128 127 128 129 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	62.6% Good	Read 90.9 Write 92.1 Mixed 60.6 SusWrite 127 68% 92.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 1 191% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GB 122,822 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	46.2% Average	MC Read 16.3 MC Write 16 MC Mixed 12.9 43% 15.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 16 SC Mixed 15.5 43% 14.9 GB/s	Latency 58.5 68% 58.5 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 46.2% Great: 90%

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 40%

Speed boat

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	29x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	28x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	27x

Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $424

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