Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	86.8% 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	110% 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7400-$110 234,266 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78.5% Very good	Memory 87.2 1-Core 105 2-Core 207 76% 133 Pts	4-Core 403 8-Core 405 54% 404 Pts	64-Core 392 24% 392 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3773) ≥ 4GB; GV-N1070WF2OC-8GD CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 416.16 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 116 Parallax 97.3 90% 108 fps	MRender 94.2 Gravity 99.1 Splatting 99.8 80% 97.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A1000 NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$53 30,265 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 124GB free (System drive) Firmware: E8FK11.L Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 474 261 261 261 258 258 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	110% Outstanding	Read 594 Write 721 Mixed 638 SusWrite 295 127% 562 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 46.6 168% 63 MB/s	DQ Read 36.5 DQ Write 705 DQ Mixed 50.4 135% 264 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 141%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 245GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 124 126 121 121 122 119 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	78.2% Very good	Read 150 Write 121 Mixed 77.2 SusWrite 122 86% 117 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1.2 234% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D26BFSB.16FE 2x8GB 162 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	80.4% Excellent	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 31.3 MC Mixed 26.5 83% 29 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 30.3 SC Mixed 21.8 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 70.3 57% 70.3 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 98%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 25%

Raft

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

Surfboard

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	89x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	84x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	68x

Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $582

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