Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.1% 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	113% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (55%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing way above expectations (91^st 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 96.4 1-Core 122 2-Core 245 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 481 64% 478 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 436.15 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.1% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 113 Parallax 94.4 82% 103 fps	MRender 96.4 Gravity 100 Splatting 103 82% 99.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend TS512GSSD230S 512GB 2,577 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 269GB free (System drive) Firmware: R0427BNR SusWrite @10s intervals: 376 423 442 461 441 442 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 454 Mixed 407 SusWrite 431 100% 446 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 89.7 4K Mixed 48.5 166% 58.4 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 350 DQ Mixed 283 231% 328 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 111%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 623GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 163 162 162 162 164 163 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 202 Write 165 Mixed 112 SusWrite 163 118% 161 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 1.3 246% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/4G 029E CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 KHX1600C10D3/4G 029E CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1867, 1867, 1867, 1867 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	70.2% Very good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 25.8 MC Mixed 22.4 70% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.7 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 21.9 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 52.5 76% 52.5 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 70%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 37%

Jet ski

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 29%

Raft

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	138x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	131x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	105x

Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $364

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $36	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16