Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 43% Speed boat	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


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 a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 42.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	2.48% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (60%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

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
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+-$150 1,985 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Socket AM2 , 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	42.9% Average	Memory 72.9 1-Core 40.1 2-Core 72 42% 61.7 Pts	4-Core 78.8 8-Core 75.9 10% 77.4 Pts	64-Core 78.1 5% 78.1 Pts
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 42.9% Great: 46%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT 8,099 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Gigabyte(1458 3452) 256MB Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.01 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	2.48% Terrible	Lighting 2.7 Reflection 5.35 Parallax 0.91 2% 2.98 fps	MRender 5.38 Gravity 1.9 Splatting 3.87 3% 3.72 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 2.48% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 70GB free Firmware: EXT0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 124 116 129 131 138 135 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	38.5% Below average	Read 153 Write 137 Mixed 108 SusWrite 129 30% 131 MB/s	4K Read 9 4K Write 19.2 4K Mixed 28 60% 18.7 MB/s	DQ Read 105 DQ Write 90.3 DQ Mixed 87.1 68% 94.2 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 118%
WD WD2500AVJB-63UDA0 250GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 173GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 67 64 75 77 81 80 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	43.4% Average	Read 77 Write 80 Mixed 34.8 SusWrite 73.9 48% 66.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.7 132% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 43%
Samsung HD503HI 500GB-$41 8,190 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 380GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AJ1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 31 26 33 27 27 27 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	13.7% Very poor	Read 19 Write 26.5 Mixed 24.8 SusWrite 28.6 18% 24.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 0.3 4K Mixed 0.3 43% 0.23 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 13.7% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	23.4% Poor	MC Read 8.6 MC Write 7 MC Mixed 7.8 22% 7.8 GB/s	SC Read 4.3 SC Write 6.6 SC Mixed 6 16% 5.63 GB/s	Latency 94.9 42% 94.9 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 23.4% Great: 45%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 10%

Tree trunk

Desktop 55%

Gunboat

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

CPU
Phenom II X4 945AMDBench 51%, 12,746 samples	3x
Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+AMDBench 37%, 5,400 samples	3x
Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+AMDBench 39%, 3,286 samples	3x

GPU
GTX 650-TiNvidia $152Bench 14%, 36,698 samples	3x
GeForce GTS 250NvidiaBench 7%, 14,881 samples	3x
GeForce 9600 GTNvidiaBench 4%, 20,826 samples	2x

SSD
128G B 128GBSSDBench 50%, 87 samples	2x
PLUS 240 240GBSandiskBench 43%, 29 samples	2x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	2x

Value: 22% - Poor

Total price: $152

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