Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	128% 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 above expectations (66^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-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 89.9 1-Core 140 2-Core 271 92% 167 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 776 75% 616 Pts	64-Core 776 48% 776 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.8% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 112 Parallax 100 85% 105 fps	MRender 94 Gravity 96.9 Splatting 80.4 73% 90.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 407GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 436 467 475 480 483 480 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	128% Outstanding	Read 468 Write 462 Mixed 369 SusWrite 470 100% 442 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 63.3 208% 74.2 MB/s	DQ Read 382 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 356 268% 358 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 134%
Intel 520 Series 180GB-$140 14,258 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 154GB free Firmware: LCSi SusWrite @10s intervals: 143 159 167 173 166 167 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Read 330 Write 212 Mixed 225 SusWrite 162 52% 232 MB/s	4K Read 38.9 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 44.4 178% 67.2 MB/s	DQ Read 294 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 211 167% 235 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 88%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 333GB free Firmware: 0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 41 42 42 42 42 42 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	23.6% Poor	Read 40.2 Write 37.9 Mixed 29 SusWrite 41.8 28% 37.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.5 100% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 23.6% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$46 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	73.3% Very good	MC Read 24.9 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 23.5 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 29 SC Mixed 24.4 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 67.3 59% 67.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 80%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 40%

Speed boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	19x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	18x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	14x

SSD
MZ7LN128HCHP-000L1 128GBSamsungBench 72%, 2,606 samples	6x
750 EVO 250GBSamsung $55Bench 94%, 75,831 samples	5x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $68Bench 224%, 92,081 samples	5x

RAM
M378A5244CB0-CTD Kingston 9905622-057.A00G 8GBSamsungBench 65%, 10 samples	9x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	6x
M378A1G43EB1-CPB M378A5143EB1-CPB 12GBSamsungBench 55%, 44 samples	6x

Value: 107% - Outstanding

Total price: $184

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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