Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 62% Destroyer	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	7.27% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (67%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (40^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 970-$1,141 4,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	68.2% Good	Memory 91 1-Core 78.9 2-Core 158 66% 109 Pts	4-Core 247 8-Core 441 41% 344 Pts	64-Core 516 32% 516 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6970 9,594 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 03B8) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	7.27% Terrible	Lighting 0.03 Reflection 24.7 Parallax 30.2 0% 18.3 fps	MRender 19.9 Gravity 26 Splatting 30.2 21% 25.4 fps
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 7.27% Great: 22%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM830 128GB 13,767 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2GB free Firmware: CXM05H1Q Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 342 Write 177 Mixed 186 52% 235 MB/s	4K Read 18 4K Write 33 4K Mixed 17.5 67% 22.8 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 70.2 DQ Mixed 99.1 80% 117 MB/s
Poor: 48% Great: 73%
WD WD800BEVS-22RST0 80GB 1,255 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 18GB free (System drive) Firmware: 11.01G11 SusWrite @10s intervals: 19 25 22 19 24 17 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	16.2% Very poor	Read 34.7 Write 31 Mixed 24.3 SusWrite 21.2 21% 27.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.4 95% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 16.2% Great: 27%
WD WD1600HLFS-60G6U2 160GB 3,337 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 113GB free Firmware: 04.04V03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 115 117 117 118 118 117 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	65.8% Good	Read 112 Write 112 Mixed 77.3 SusWrite 117 77% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 1.3 236% 1.7 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 6 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	30.9% Below average	MC Read 10.4 MC Write 11.5 MC Mixed 9.1 30% 10.3 GB/s	SC Read 6.4 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 7.7 18% 6.47 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 30.9% Great: 61%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 61%

Destroyer

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	1,322x
SVGA 3DVmwareBench 20%, 11,474 samples	1,143x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	1,048x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	826x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples	457x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	426x

Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $325

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16