Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	61.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.3% 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.

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-2689 0 6,987 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	71.1% Very good	Memory 81.7 1-Core 87.6 2-Core 175 67% 115 Pts	4-Core 326 8-Core 564 54% 445 Pts	64-Core 872 54% 872 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 366A) CLim: 1669 MHz, MLim: 1852 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 471.11 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61.2% Good	Lighting 77.6 Reflection 82.5 Parallax 73.2 63% 77.8 fps	MRender 71.4 Gravity 76.3 Splatting 64.6 57% 70.8 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SSD 128GB 128GB 7,332 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: FW200326 SusWrite @10s intervals: 348 347 350 335 130 110 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	Read 492 Write 357 Mixed 337 SusWrite 270 81% 364 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 68 4K Mixed 14.3 104% 38.3 MB/s	DQ Read 114 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 18.1 62% 132 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 93%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 24GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 SusWrite @10s intervals: 96 100 100 100 100 100 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	57% Above average	Read 98.9 Write 84.4 Mixed 21.7 SusWrite 99.4 55% 76.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.7 142% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 107%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 8GB 14,254 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 3GB free, PID 1665 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 3.9 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.2 3.2 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	5.34% Terrible	Read 23.6 Write 4.5 Mixed 8.5 SusWrite 3.5 10% 10 MB/s	4K Read 4.9 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0.1 22% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.34% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-012.A 99U5471-020.A 9905471-006.A 9905471-006.A 16GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	84.5% Excellent	MC Read 35 MC Write 33.3 MC Mixed 30.9 94% 33.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 12.1 SC Mixed 11 37% 12.9 GB/s	Latency 77.4 52% 77.4 ns
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 90%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 60%

Destroyer

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

Yacht

SSD
128GB 128GBSSDBench 65%, 7,332 samples	16x
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBWD $74Bench 228%, 180,890 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
99U5471-012.A 99U5471-020.A 9905471-006.A 9905471-006.A 16GBKingstonBench 86%, 17 samples	13x
F3 DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 65%, 473 samples	10x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	5x

Value: 143% - Outstanding

Total price: $132

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