Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	77.8% 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	79.8% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8400-$131 312,220 User benchmarks, average bench 82% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 94.2 1-Core 123 2-Core 247 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 587 67% 522 Pts	64-Core 684 42% 684 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 89%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop Coffee Lake i5 i7) 147,588 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Intel(8086 3E92) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 25.20.100.6373 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	6.55% Terrible	Lighting 6.7 Reflection 10.1 Parallax 6.66 6% 7.82 fps	MRender 10.9 Gravity 5.83 Splatting 13.8 9% 10.2 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.55% Great: 7%
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.8 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.8% Very good	Lighting 95.5 Reflection 107 Parallax 92.3 78% 98.3 fps	MRender 94.9 Gravity 91.4 Splatting 97.4 78% 94.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3K87RA SusWrite @10s intervals: 212 71 39 33 74 31 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	79.8% Very good	Read 492 Write 333 Mixed 103 SusWrite 76.5 55% 251 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 34 149% 57.2 MB/s	DQ Read 303 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 111 116% 195 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 82%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 283GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 124 123 121 119 122 123 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	69.8% Good	Read 121 Write 121 Mixed 71.5 SusWrite 122 80% 109 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1 201% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 85%

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 @ 2667 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	78.4% Very good	MC Read 31.1 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 22.9 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 29.1 SC Mixed 25.6 69% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 59.3 68% 59.3 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 104%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 55%

Yacht

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 50%

Yacht

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	38x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	30x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	24x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	34x
Aegis DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $38Bench 82%, 163,634 samples	33x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	32x

Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $445

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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