Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 62.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	81.7% 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	73.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	62.4% Good	Memory 52.7 1-Core 121 2-Core 229 71% 134 Pts	4-Core 387 8-Core 595 61% 491 Pts	64-Core 620 38% 620 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% MSI(1462 375A) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 419.67 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	81.7% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 96.1 Parallax 88.1 86% 96.4 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 91.4 Splatting 78.2 74% 92.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB-$400 12,355 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 206GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.5.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 242 243 249 251 247 245 MB/s Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	73.8% Very good	Read 252 Write 240 Mixed 201 SusWrite 246 53% 235 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 87 4K Mixed 35.7 130% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 194 DQ Write 189 DQ Mixed 194 145% 192 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 106%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 420GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 146 146 146 147 148 148 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 144 Mixed 98.5 SusWrite 147 105% 143 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 1 211% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 109%
ZALMAN ZM-VE500 240GB 18 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 219GB free, PID 3e40 SusWrite @10s intervals: 274 248 252 251 160 108 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	250% Outstanding	Read 255 Write 217 Mixed 232 SusWrite 216 310% 230 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 52.3 4K Mixed 17.3 2,448% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 21.4 DQ Write 60.8 DQ Mixed 18.7 2,783% 33.6 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 250% Great: 250%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905402-570.A00LF 4x4GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.1% Good	MC Read 24.5 MC Write 24.8 MC Mixed 23.2 69% 24.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 17 SC Mixed 14.4 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 151 26% 151 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 64%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 40%

Jet ski

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 35%

Sail boat

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	19x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	11x
DDR3 1600G DDR3 1600G Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G 12GBAdataBench 52%, 28 samples	11x

Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $1,060

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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