Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 39% Jet ski	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 31% Sail boat


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 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 76.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	50.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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 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 i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	76.5% Very good	Memory 88.5 1-Core 101 2-Core 201 75% 130 Pts	4-Core 349 8-Core 500 53% 424 Pts	64-Core 486 30% 486 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290-$399 68,699 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Sapphire(174B E289) ≥ 4GB CLim: 957 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 19.8.1 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	50.9% Above average	Lighting 62.4 Reflection 55.7 Parallax 72.7 51% 63.6 fps	MRender 56.6 Gravity 53.8 Splatting 72 51% 60.8 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 50%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4GB free (System drive) Firmware: BBF0 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 222 Write 144 Mixed 163 39% 176 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 54.1 4K Mixed 30.9 102% 35.8 MB/s	DQ Read 112 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 121 90% 120 MB/s
Poor: 30% Great: 73%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free Firmware: AB51 SusWrite @10s intervals: 95 96 98 97 95 96 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	64.4% Good	Read 128 Write 113 Mixed 105 SusWrite 96.2 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.7 152% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-547.A 2x8GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	50.4% Above average	MC Read 19.3 MC Write 17.3 MC Mixed 16.2 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 13.9 SC Mixed 12.1 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 69 58% 69 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 50%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 44%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	35x
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 57%, 2,734 samples	28x
F3 DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 65%, 473 samples	15x

Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $577

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