Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.4% 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	112% 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.

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 94.2 1-Core 134 2-Core 249 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 693 69% 561 Pts	64-Core 692 43% 692 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 436.48 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.4% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 103 Parallax 84.3 83% 96.2 fps	MRender 94.2 Gravity 98.5 Splatting 96 79% 96.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZ7LN256HMJP-000H1 256GB 5,580 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 91GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1H3Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 376 292 303 296 299 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	112% Outstanding	Read 415 Write 402 Mixed 353 SusWrite 311 83% 370 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 54.2 196% 69.7 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 342 DQ Mixed 351 266% 357 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 122%
Seagate ST1500DM003-9YN16G 1.5TB 5,186 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 552GB free Firmware: CC4B SusWrite @10s intervals: 150 152 154 155 152 152 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	93.9% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 113 Mixed 86.5 SusWrite 152 97% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.7 130% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 103%
WD Blue 2.5" 750GB (2010)-$55 30,952 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 696GB free Firmware: 1A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 99 98 99 100 100 100 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	55.9% Above average	Read 95.2 Write 92 Mixed 54 SusWrite 99.4 62% 85.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.6 115% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C9D3/4GX KHX1600C10D3/4G KHX1600C9D3/4GX 16GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	60.5% Good	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.6 58% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 22.8 SC Mixed 19.7 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 61%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 60%

Gunboat

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	327x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	201x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	175x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	53x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	37x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	31x

Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $343

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16