Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 90.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	78% 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	83.4% 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.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 132 2-Core 222 87% 150 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 805 76% 633 Pts	64-Core 796 49% 796 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36CB) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 416.16 Performing below potential (49^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78% Very good	Lighting 99.8 Reflection 109 Parallax 96.6 81% 102 fps	MRender 91 Gravity 96.2 Splatting 78.3 72% 88.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 240GB 13,500 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 162GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 175 165 174 197 179 179 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Read 582 Write 238 Mixed 262 SusWrite 178 69% 315 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 93.2 4K Mixed 33.4 138% 52.3 MB/s	DQ Read 92.5 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 124 107% 152 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 133%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 921GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 180 186 183 186 180 183 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 184 Mixed 95.3 SusWrite 183 120% 164 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1.2 227% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2666 C15 4x4GB 11,950 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	90% Outstanding	MC Read 32.9 MC Write 34.3 MC Mixed 27.9 91% 31.7 GB/s	SC Read 20.3 SC Write 36 SC Mixed 27.3 80% 27.9 GB/s	Latency 56.3 71% 56.3 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 105%

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	549x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	374x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	299x

Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

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