Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.3% 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	198% 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 above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	Memory 90.9 1-Core 143 2-Core 279 94% 171 Pts	4-Core 507 8-Core 743 78% 625 Pts	64-Core 714 44% 714 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 90%

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: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 120 Parallax 102 92% 112 fps	MRender 99.6 Gravity 104 Splatting 103 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 100GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	198% Outstanding	Read 1,482 Write 840 Mixed 1,054 249% 1,126 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 177 4K Mixed 49.6 226% 90.7 MB/s	DQ Read 598 DQ Write 281 DQ Mixed 181 203% 354 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 198% Great: 243%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 58GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 494 Mixed 515 114% 509 MB/s	4K Read 36.5 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 45.5 177% 67.3 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 324 DQ Mixed 162 173% 289 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 124%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$35 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 125GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	51.7% Above average	Read 90.7 Write 89.2 Mixed 97.2 70% 92.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.39 92% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1923 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.1% Good	MC Read 25 MC Write 26 MC Mixed 21.4 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 26.2 SC Mixed 21.7 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 85%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	806x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	565x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	559x

Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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