Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	3.5% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	208% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-8100-$110 81,392 User benchmarks, average bench 71% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 117 2-Core 202 80% 137 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 460 62% 460 Pts	64-Core 458 28% 458 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop Coffee Lake i3) 32,403 User benchmarks, average bench 5% ASRock(1849 3E91) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 27.20.100.9466 Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	3.5% Terrible	Lighting 6.5 Reflection 7.8 Parallax 7.6 5% 7.3 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.5% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX8200 NVMe PCIe M.2 480GB-$60 15,626 User benchmarks, average bench 216% 382GB free (System drive) Firmware: SVN139B Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 495 505 498 486 500 512 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	208% Outstanding	Read 2,387 Write 508 Mixed 620 SusWrite 499 218% 1,003 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 54.4 178% 66.1 MB/s	DQ Read 692 DQ Write 472 DQ Mixed 496 394% 554 MB/s
Poor: 127% ↑ This bench: 208% Great: 333%
CHN 25SATA01M 120 120GB 159 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 67GB free Firmware: O1229A SusWrite @10s intervals: 166 168 170 171 170 171 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	60.8% Good	Read 441 Write 170 Mixed 173 SusWrite 169 53% 238 MB/s	4K Read 19 4K Write 87.7 4K Mixed 11.6 90% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 146 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 69.3 77% 129 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 70%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 716GB free Firmware: 1AA01118 SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 87 89 91 84 84 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	49.6% Average	Read 85.3 Write 92.6 Mixed 55.9 SusWrite 87.2 59% 80.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 1 183% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x4GB 3,999 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	MC Read 29.5 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 26.7 84% 29.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 33.9 SC Mixed 26.5 74% 25.9 GB/s	Latency 62.6 64% 62.6 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 93%

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
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	114x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	112x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	92x

RAM
Aegis DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $38Bench 82%, 163,634 samples	127x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	113x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	102x

Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $528

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