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Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, GPU, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (32nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 68 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.
Boot Drive	64.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 28 '15 at 20:03
Run Duration	691 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 109 2-Core 216 74% 162 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 404 54% 403 Pts	64-Core 408 25% 408 Pts
Poor: 51% Great: 79%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB-$139 17,545 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 6322 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1941 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 211 (A9) Unknown 100 100 350 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 100 (AE) Unknown 100 100 207 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 40 171799740446 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 801 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 26228 (F1) Unknown 253 253 11619 (F2) Unknown 253 253 88696 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	64.9% Good	Read 451 Write 214 Mixed 280 69% 315 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 75.6 4K Mixed 17.2 93% 37.8 MB/s	DQ Read 88.4 DQ Write 192 DQ Mixed 11.7 46% 97.5 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 99%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$25 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 174GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 64092712 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9287 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21270568 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12459 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2573 (B7) Unknown 90 90 10 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 66 9027452954 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 295 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 61 61 78284 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 -140737488355302 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 101155069760106 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20554668748489 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -74701085167361	68.1% Good	Read 118 Write 120 Mixed 106 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.31 86% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 112%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 128GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 141 139 3916 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9908 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22406 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4307 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 420 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9487 (C2) HDA temperature 114 101 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61.7% Good	Read 102 Write 113 Mixed 108 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.33 92% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 26GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 2264 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 796 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6918712 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1571 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 563 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 62 471072796 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 30064771100 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 41 32 2264 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 20959440406045 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1225327826 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1639790257	43.5% Average	Read 75.9 Write 75.8 Mixed 74.2 57% 75.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.7 120% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 88%
WDC WD25 00BEKX-00B7WT0 250GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 226GB free, PID 2329 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	8.7% Terrible	Read 36.1 Write 1.56 Mixed 2.05 10% 13.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 0.99 4K Mixed 0.21 42% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 8.7% Great: 19%
Samsung M3 Portable 1TB 17,632 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 169GB free, PID 61b6 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	19.6% Very poor	Read 41.2 Write 42.2 Mixed 40.1 53% 41.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.31 60% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 19.6% Great: 42%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	839x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	761x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	348x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	237x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	207x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	88x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	83x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	72x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	68x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $627

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Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $44	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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