Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 88.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	77.1% 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	129% 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 (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3970X-$217 2,677 User benchmarks, average bench 78% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Memory 95 1-Core 110 2-Core 213 81% 139 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 692 70% 568 Pts	64-Core 843 52% 843 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 871C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2064 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 419.72 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.1% Very good	Lighting 94.2 Reflection 102 Parallax 78.8 77% 91.6 fps	MRender 95.4 Gravity 94.1 Splatting 95.1 78% 94.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 19,561 User benchmarks, average bench 122% 437GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5KDA4103 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 453 404 405 333 153 122 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	129% Outstanding	Read 1,013 Write 867 Mixed 856 SusWrite 312 170% 762 MB/s	4K Read 13.7 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 40.8 129% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 768 DQ Write 508 DQ Mixed 454 388% 577 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 170%
Kingston SSDNow KC400 256GB-$35 2,939 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 238GB free Firmware: SAFM001B SusWrite @10s intervals: 482 460 454 456 456 458 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Read 456 Write 460 Mixed 323 SusWrite 461 96% 425 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 51.2 4K Mixed 28 94% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 352 DQ Mixed 68.5 129% 256 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 110%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 173 172 174 175 174 174 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	99.2% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 162 Mixed 82.7 SusWrite 174 108% 148 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 1.2 234% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT451U6AFR8C HMT451U6AFR8C HMT451U6BFR8A HMT351U6EFR8C 16GB 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	97.7% Outstanding	MC Read 40.6 MC Write 38.8 MC Mixed 34.1 108% 37.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 15.5 SC Mixed 12.8 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 57 70% 57 ns

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 40%

Speed boat

RAM
M393B5170GB0- 4x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 2,611 samples	56x
M393B1K70DH0- 4x8GBSamsungBench 91%, 1,639 samples	46x
M393B1K70QB0- 4x8GBSamsungBench 96%, 634 samples	24x

Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $158

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