Performance Results


Gaming 45% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 71.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	54.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8300-$168 49,767 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.9% Very good	Memory 93.5 1-Core 72 2-Core 143 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 273 8-Core 432 43% 353 Pts	64-Core 385 24% 385 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5500-XT-$217 72,993 User benchmarks, average bench 51% Sapphire(1DA2 E421) ≥ 4GB Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.2.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60% Good	Lighting 75.6 Reflection 55.7 Parallax 119 62% 83.5 fps	MRender 54 Gravity 75.9 Splatting 75 57% 68.3 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 96 93 106 110 86 103 MB/s Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	54.6% Above average	Read 223 Write 151 Mixed 178 SusWrite 99 36% 163 MB/s	4K Read 15.6 4K Write 71.7 4K Mixed 35.8 108% 41 MB/s	DQ Read 97.3 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 67.1 66% 104 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 75%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 120GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 86 82 92 118 128 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	60.6% Good	Read 112 Write 44.5 Mixed 75.7 SusWrite 98.8 61% 82.8 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 1 190% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 109%
Seagate STM3500418AS 500GB 8,252 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 60GB free Firmware: CC38 SusWrite @10s intervals: 100 98 100 100 98 100 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	58.2% Above average	Read 103 Write 89.5 Mixed 60.8 SusWrite 99.2 65% 88.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 1 174% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 4,489 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	51.6% Above average	MC Read 22 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 18.6 52% 18.4 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 9 SC Mixed 13.4 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 79%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 21%

Surfboard

Desktop 65%

Destroyer

Workstation 17%

Surfboard

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	50x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	45x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	32x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	26x

Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $334

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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