Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 54% Yacht	Workstation 5% 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 an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 56.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	11.7% 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	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Very high background CPU (48%). 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 Phenom II X4 965-$144 43,442 User benchmarks, average bench 53% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	56.7% Above average	Memory 82.4 1-Core 49.8 2-Core 99 50% 77.1 Pts	4-Core 184 8-Core 169 24% 176 Pts	64-Core 191 12% 191 Pts
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 61%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5770 37,602 User benchmarks, average bench 10% XFX(1682 2990) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 13.251.9001.1001 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	11.7% Very poor	Lighting 15.2 Reflection 11.7 Parallax 13 12% 13.3 fps	MRender 10.5 Gravity 11.4 Splatting 15 10% 12.3 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 11.7% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3400832AS 400GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 357GB free Firmware: 3.03 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	37.6% Below average	Read 64.9 Write 66 Mixed 63.1 49% 64.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 0.77 4K Mixed 0.35 79% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 38%
Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB 106 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 330GB free Firmware: CC71 Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	46.4% Average	Read 79.7 Write 81.9 Mixed 77.2 60% 79.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.54 120% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 46.4% Great: 70%
AMD 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 320GB 57 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 240GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.10 Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	31.8% Below average	Read 63.9 Write 47.3 Mixed 63.5 44% 58.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 0.15 4K Mixed 0.14 31% 0.2 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 31.8% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/ Corsair CMD4GX3M2A160 KHX1600C10D3/ Corsair CMD4GX3M2A160 20GB 800, 667, 800, 667 MHz 8192, 2048, 8192, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	31.7% Below average	MC Read 13.2 MC Write 7.4 MC Mixed 12 31% 10.9 GB/s	SC Read 6.3 SC Write 6 SC Mixed 8.7 20% 7 GB/s	Latency 76.2 52% 76.2 ns

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 65%

Destroyer

Workstation 18%

Surfboard

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	43x
BLS4G3D1609DS 2x4GBCrucialBench 43%, 4,102 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	20x

Value: 39% - Below average

Total price: $645

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16