Benchmarking your PC... let's see what you got!

UserBenchmarks: Game 92%, Desk 89%, Work 59%

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K - 101.5% O/C 4.5 GHz, 1.15V Vcore
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB - 97.4% O/C Core Clock +150, Memory Clock +60
SSD: SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB - 77% System
SSD: OCZ Trion 100 240GB - 65% Trainz 2012 SP1
HDD: WD WD5000AACS-00ZUB0 500GB - 40.4%
HDD: Maxtor STM3250310AS 250GB - 48.1%
HDD: Maxtor STM3250310AS 250GB - 46.8%

RAM: HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB - 73.7%
MBD: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

UserBenchmarks: Game 96%, Desk 92%, Work 62%

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K - 101.3%, O/C 4.5GHz, 1.16V Vcore
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB - 98.7%, O/C Core Clock +150, Memory Clock +60
SSD: SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB - 80.3%, System
SSD: OCZ Trion 100 240GB - 62.2%, Trainz 2012 SP1
HDD: WD Black 1TB - 94.7%
RAM: HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB - 74.1%
MBD: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

I got rid of the three oldish hard drives and installed new WD Black 1Tb, lifts the scores a bit but what a palava to copy the data!

Now looking to aquire and install another ssd for T:ANE

Rob.
 
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Finally finished my PC build.....

UserBenchmarks: Game 152%, Desk 151%, Work 119%
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K - 111.5%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 - 172.7%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB - 1,102.2%
SSD: Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB - 272.6%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB - 108.4%
RAM: G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB - 101.3%
MBD: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Should be 'adequate' as Rolls Royce would say:)

By the way, I am not nitrogen cooling my Samsung 850 evo. The reason the benchmark is so high is that I have the Samsung Magician Rapid mode enabled, whereby it uses some system RAM to cache data.

Now to move everything over from my iMAC. Time to invest in a large thumb drive, methinks.
 
Finally finished my PC build.....

UserBenchmarks: Game 152%, Desk 151%, Work 119%
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K - 111.5%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 - 172.7%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB - 1,102.2%
SSD: Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB - 272.6%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB - 108.4%
RAM: G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB - 101.3%
MBD: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Should be 'adequate' as Rolls Royce would say:)

By the way, I am not nitrogen cooling my Samsung 850 evo. The reason the benchmark is so high is that I have the Samsung Magician Rapid mode enabled, whereby it uses some system RAM to cache data.

Now to move everything over from my iMAC. Time to invest in a large thumb drive, methinks.

Congratulations on your new build. :)

I recommend getting an external hard drive like the Seagate Goflex or Desktop equivalent. I picked up a 4TB for about $150. There's no need to use their special software to copy data and just use it like a regular hard drive.

John
 
Vostrail - it's amazing the extra performance you're getting from your PCIe M2 SSD as well.
It won't be too long before these become the preferred choice for most new build's boot drives, methinks!
You can use the Rapid mode RAM caching on those too - but only for one drive at a time.

Edit Update: Check out this review of the amazing new Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe 2Tb M2 drive.
Tests were done on Windows 8.1 for comparison to older SSD drives, so Windows 10 performance figures should be even better.
(Something like this would make T:ANE more of a flying simulator. :) )

http://techreport.com/review/30813/samsung-960-pro-2tb-ssd-reviewed

AND
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/20...-review-the-fastest-consumer-ssd-you-can-buy/
 
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I hadn't come across M.2 NVMe SSD drives before I ordered my new PC. I've included a 256GB Intel version on which the operating system will be installed. However, I was planning to put TANE on its own dedicated, standard SSD drive.

Paul
 
I hadn't come across M.2 NVMe SSD drives before I ordered my new PC. I've included a 256GB Intel version on which the operating system will be installed. However, I was planning to put TANE on its own dedicated, standard SSD drive.

Paul

You'll do just fine.
 
UserBenchmarks: Game 133%, Desk 146%, Work 105%
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K - 101.9%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 980 Ti - 132.4%
SSD: Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB - 278%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB - 109.8%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 250GB - 77.5%
SSD: Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB - 236.9%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB - 99.8%
USB: WD Elements 2TB - 33.2%
RAM: HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 4x8GB - 78.7%
MBD: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Have Tane and O/S on the 512 m2, runs excellent
 
UserBenchmarks: Game 13%, Desk 30%, Work 20%
CPU: Intel Core i7-4500U - 31%
GPU: Intel HD 4400 (Mobile 1.0/1.1 GHz) - 4.4%
HDD: Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB - 51.2%
RAM: Samsung M471B5173QH0-YK0 2x4GB - 48.5%
MBD: Asus Q550LF

This is by far the fastest laptop I've owned, but I've never been into serious gaming. I'm surprised by the low numbers. The benchmark program stated that I have too much running in the background.
Seems to run TANE SP2 well enough.
 
Can't resist putting in my bit, as TANE and my new desktop are the best performance experience I've had with a long list of Trainz/HW combo's (lost count).

UserBenchmarks: Game 94%, Desk 98%, Work 73%
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700 - 95.3%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 93.9%
SSD: Nvme PC300 SK hy 256GB - 122.7%
HDD: Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB - 102.1%
RAM: Micron 8ATF1G64AZ-2G3H1 2x8GB - 77.1%
MBD: Dell XPS 8920

Apparently the performance of my GTX 1070 is below expectations! It certainly exceeds anything I've had before.

BTW: on the (not measured) gaming db noise level benchmark... whatever happened to the frantic fan noise of yester years. This thing runs so quiet. Maybe the conservatively configured 1070 has something to do with that ?
 
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UserBenchmarks: Game 31%, Desk 96%, Work 67%
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K - 102%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 750 Ti - 22.8%
SSD: Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB - 67.6%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB - 116.3%
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 240GB - 60.8%
HDD: WD Black 2TB (2010) - 71.5%
HDD: WD Black 2TB (2010) - 53.5%
USB: WD My Passport Essential USB 3.0 1TB - 15.9%
USB: WD My Passport 071A 1TB - 15%
RAM: Kingston 9905678-012.A00G 2x8GB - 76.4%
MBD: Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3
 
I've upgraded a little since my last post here, so here's another look.

UserBenchmarks: Game 61%, Desk 43%, Work 28%
CPU: AMD FX-4300 - 42.2%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 92.8%
SSD: Crucial MX300 275GB - 36.2%
HDD: Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB - 93%
RAM: Unknown 2x4GB - 38.8%
MBD: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2

I have some decent stuff in here, but the old CPU and MoBo are still bogging everything down. Also, my SSD was originally purchased to upgrade an old MacBook, but my plans changed suddenly, so I installed it in my desktop instead of sending it back. If I had the desktop in mind when I purchased the SSD, I would've gone Samsung.

Gaming: 61% Destroyer
Desktop: 43% Speed Boat
Workstation: 28% Raft

Matt
 
epa - Exactly right - the mobo and CPU are the major bottlenecks in the above User Benchmarks. Replacing these, plus adding 8Gb more RAM will give you a much faster T:ANE experience.
The performance of your other components (like the GTX 1070 and SSD) are being held back by the CPU and DDR3.
On current benchmarks, just about any of the new Intel 8th generation chips, or an AMD Ryzen CPU, coupled with 16Gb of DDR4 RAM, will boost your gaming experience markedly.
 
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Here we go. Seems that my memory could faster. I see that the faster results are with 4 x 8 GB DDR 4 memory. But nothing is overlocked at the moment except that the pc is running in Game Mode on 4800Mhz clock speed.

UserBenchmarks: Game 102% (UFO), Desk 105% (UFO), Work 79% (Battleship)

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K - 102.6%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 101.8%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB - 112.3%
HDD: WD Black 2TB (2013) - 100.1%
RAM: Crucial BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD2 2x8GB - 83.6%
MBD: MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)
 
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My benchmarks:

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/7801998

UserBenchmarks: Game 68%, Desk 62%, Work 51%
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K - 84%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB - 72.3%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) - 65.3%
RAM: Kingston 9905678-027.A00G 2x8GB - 61.8%
MBD: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71)

p.s. I hope that with this rig can run properly the upcoming Trainz version. :hehe:
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I don't believe this result.
I just changed a power supply over because the 600 watt power supply was crashing to black screen.
External HDD are on a USB 3.0 port. Slack results for the speed USB 3 is claimed to provide.

UserBenchmarks: Game 27%, Desk 50%, Work 37%
CPU: AMD FX-8350 - 56.9%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 750 Ti - 22.8%
SSD: SanDisk Ultra II 240GB - 52.2%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB - 95.9%
USB: WD My Passport 25E1 2TB - 40.9%
USB: WD Elements 1TB - 41.6%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB - 41.2%
MBD: Asus M5A97 R2.0
 
I don't believe this result.
I just changed a power supply over because the 600 watt power supply was crashing to black screen.
External HDD are on a USB 3.0 port. Slack results for the speed USB 3 is claimed to provide.

UserBenchmarks: Game 27%, Desk 50%, Work 37%
CPU: AMD FX-8350 - 56.9%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 750 Ti - 22.8%
SSD: SanDisk Ultra II 240GB - 52.2%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB - 95.9%
USB: WD My Passport 25E1 2TB - 40.9%
USB: WD Elements 1TB - 41.6%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB - 41.2%
MBD: Asus M5A97 R2.0

Well, looking to your PC, it's starting to become a little bit obsolete for the current gaming standards (don't offend for that)
 
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Gaming 31% Sail Boat
Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine
Work station 64% Destroyer

UserBenchmarks: Game 31%, Desk 92%, Work 64%
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K - 100.4%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 750 Ti - 22.7%
SSD: Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB - 65.2% - O/S drive
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB - 106% - Trains system and associated data storage
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 240GB - 59.9%
HDD: WD Black 2TB (2010) - 48.8% - Work drive
HDD: WD Black 2TB (2010) - 52.7%
RAM: Kingston 9905678-012.A00G 2x8GB - 76.8%
MBD: Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3
 
I wonder what components would be good to upgrade to bring the score up. From using my PC with Trainz, Train Simulator 2018 and overall desktop computing, I don't see any problems. My PC runs at a decent speed and runs applications smoothly and games smoothly. I also have a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo cooling my CPU along with an EVGA 1000 G2 80 plus Gold power supply to power the computer. I also wonder why my SSD received a low score.

UserBenchmarks: Game 56%, Desk 44%, Work 32%
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 - 46.8% //CPU running at 3.4 Ghz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB - 74.8%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB - 55.4% //Boot Drive. TANE, Train Simulator 2018, and OpenBVE run on the SSD. A few programs installed on this drive
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB - 74.6% // TANE backup data and everything else installed on this drive
RAM: Unknown 4x4GB - 34% // 16GB DDR3 OC to 1600 Mhz in dual channel configuration
MBD: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3
 
malikrthr - Couple of things puzzle me about your rig scores above. The Samsung 850 EVO SSDs typically score way more than shown here (55.4%).
For example - look up at other benchmarks posted above that include the Samsung 850 EVO. Most are over 100%.

Are you running it with AHCI and do you have Rapid mode engaged?
(Check the Samsung Magician software utility for details). If not installed, download it and run it.

Looks to me like a visit to your BIOS and motherboard setup would be worthwhile. Question: Is that mobo SATA 3.0 capable?
Sadly, the CPU (Phenom II) is a bottleneck for other components such as your GPU (GTX-1060 6Gb) which would score more with a faster CPU.
 
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