Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 99.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	6.66% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	97.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Motherboard	Asus TUF Z370-PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180409
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 11 '18 at 07:04
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	99.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 142 2-Core 280 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 552 8-Core 912 89% 732 Pts	64-Core 1141 71% 1141 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT 5,568 User benchmarks, average bench 6% XFX(1682 2330) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	6.66% Terrible	Lighting 9.03 Reflection 8.77 Parallax 2.97 7% 6.92 fps	MRender 7.43 Gravity 6.77 Splatting 5.61 5% 6.6 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.66% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 477GB free Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	139% Outstanding	Read 1,549 Write 536 Mixed 668 200% 918 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 75.8 4K Mixed 18.4 110% 41.7 MB/s	DQ Read 321 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 46.7 97% 200 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 139% Great: 155%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 176GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6374 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1371 (B1) Unknown 95 95 160 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 52 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 352 (EB) Unknown 99 99 254 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24621725860	97.8% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 498 Mixed 507 114% 509 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 86.6 4K Mixed 23.4 117% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 23.5 84% 183 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 116%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	97.1% Outstanding	MC Read 37.6 MC Write 37.1 MC Mixed 26.4 96% 33.7 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 41.9 SC Mixed 32 92% 32.4 GB/s	Latency 52.1 77% 52.1 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 104%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 93%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 85%

Aircraft carrier

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	79x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	50x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	84x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	35x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	30x

Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $709

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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