Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.4% 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	60.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Very high background CPU (70%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 116 2-Core 226 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 458 62% 464 Pts	64-Core 485 30% 485 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 465.89 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.4% Excellent	Lighting 98.5 Reflection 113 Parallax 102 80% 104 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 97.8 Splatting 100 81% 98.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 120GB-$75 15,430 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 94 65 78 74 63 72 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	60.7% Good	Read 417 Write 138 Mixed 203 SusWrite 74.3 46% 208 MB/s	4K Read 20.8 4K Write 60.2 4K Mixed 28.1 99% 36.4 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 133 116% 175 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 77%
SHGS31-1000GS-2 1TB 11,576 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 77GB free Firmware: 90000Q00 SusWrite @10s intervals: 288 407 446 451 411 406 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	97.4% Outstanding	Read 485 Write 470 Mixed 423 SusWrite 401 100% 445 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 35.1 120% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 393 DQ Write 346 DQ Mixed 365 275% 368 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 207GB free Firmware: CC47 SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 127 127 129 129 127 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Read 174 Write 138 Mixed 84.5 SusWrite 126 96% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.7 150% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 22,320 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	63.5% Good	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 20.5 62% 21.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 20.3 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 58.6 68% 58.6 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 63%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	143x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	127x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	114x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	55x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	47x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	43x

Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $472

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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