Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 0% Tree trunk	Desktop 29% Raft	Workstation 0% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (5th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 95 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 34.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	0.67% 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 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 (53%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon X4 840 Quad Core 4,588 User benchmarks, average bench 45% FM2+ , 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	34.7% Below average	Memory 46.1 1-Core 28.1 2-Core 87.4 32% 53.9 Pts	4-Core 139 8-Core 122 18% 131 Pts	64-Core 137 8% 137 Pts
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 34.7% Great: 53%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 420 9,903 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Nvidia(10DE 0000) 2GB CLim: 700 MHz, MLim: 333 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	0.67% Terrible	Lighting 0.1 Reflection 3.5 Parallax 0.6 0% 1.4 fps	MRender 2.9 Gravity 1.9 Splatting 2 2% 2.27 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 0.67% Great: 2%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD WD5000AVCS-6 500GB 9,720 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 202GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.00A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 21 32 33 35 22 29 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	17.8% Very poor	Read 33.5 Write 39.5 Mixed 16 SusWrite 28.7 22% 29.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0 13% 0.2 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 17.8% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair ValueSelect DDR3 1600 C11 1x8GB 4,128 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 1 of 2 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	19.7% Very poor	MC Read 7.4 MC Write 6.5 MC Mixed 6.3 19% 6.73 GB/s	SC Read 5.2 SC Write 5.9 SC Mixed 6.4 17% 5.83 GB/s	Latency 176 23% 176 ns
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 19.7% Great: 34%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 16%

Surfboard

Desktop 55%

Yacht

Workstation 13%

Tree trunk

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	59x
Radeon R7 GraphicsAMDBench 6%, 25,284 samples	51x
Radeon R7 GraphicsAMDBench 5%, 22,117 samples	40x

Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $87

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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