Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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	66.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	111% 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	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78.5% Very good	Memory 88.2 1-Core 100 2-Core 201 75% 130 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 396 53% 398 Pts	64-Core 382 24% 382 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1597 MHz, MLim: 1810 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 512.59 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	66.5% Good	Lighting 82.1 Reflection 97.3 Parallax 84.7 67% 88 fps	MRender 82.7 Gravity 83.2 Splatting 76.4 66% 80.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDBNCE5000PNC 500GB 11,302 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 74GB free (System drive) Firmware: X61190WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 212 333 249 403 320 256 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 480 Mixed 376 SusWrite 296 93% 414 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 53 185% 66.7 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 335 DQ Mixed 286 234% 333 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 118%
Sandisk PLUS 240GB 86,316 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 10GB free Firmware: UF4500RL Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 439 Write 246 Mixed 230 67% 305 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 45 4K Mixed 19.2 84% 29.2 MB/s	DQ Read 116 DQ Write 86.4 DQ Mixed 26 40% 76.2 MB/s
Poor: 33% Great: 56%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 195GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 52 87 92 94 94 95 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	49.4% Average	Read 86.5 Write 71.5 Mixed 73.3 SusWrite 85.7 59% 79.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.6 110% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/4G 99U5474-016.A00LF KHX1600C10D3/4G 1352 SUPERTALENT02 20GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	61.9% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 23 MC Mixed 19.5 62% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 20.5 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 69.3 58% 69.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 62%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 60%

Gunboat

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	326x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	201x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	175x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	53x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	37x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	31x

Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $343

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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