Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 33% Sail boat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 70.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	42.8% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	99.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130715
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '17 at 16:24
Run Duration	248 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.4% Very good	Memory 88.1 1-Core 75.5 2-Core 152 64% 105 Pts	4-Core 286 8-Core 451 45% 369 Pts	64-Core 454 28% 454 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% XFX(1682 3001) 3GB CLim: 1140 MHz, MLim: 1700 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 16.10.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	42.8% Average	Lighting 55.8 Reflection 37.5 Parallax 69.2 46% 54.2 fps	MRender 35.6 Gravity 54.5 Splatting 46.3 38% 45.5 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 39%
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Sapphire(174B E244) 1GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1125 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 16.10.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	14.4% Very poor	Lighting 18.2 Reflection 16.9 Parallax 22.7 15% 19.2 fps	MRender 13.8 Gravity 16.4 Splatting 18.8 14% 16.3 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.4% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13799 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 114 (B1) Unknown 96 96 78 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 55 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18573103693	99.9% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 393 Mixed 414 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 39.4 4K Write 69.3 4K Mixed 40.8 149% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 253 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 99.3 106% 177 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 124%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 44GB free Firmware: 1AJ1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 1 1 54604 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 84 41 5069 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 172 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15584 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 175 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1395 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 180 (C2) HDA temperature 64 50 214749741090 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 99 99 129 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 64 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 15584 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1133446 (F2) Unknown 95 94 7818628 (FE) Unknown 100 100 1	70.9% Very good	Read 106 Write 141 Mixed 106 88% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 2.55 4K Mixed 0.46 114% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 75%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 10GB free Firmware: 51.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 194 166 5275 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 78 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12604 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 78 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 135 135 196369 (C2) HDA temperature 118 107 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	33.5% Below average	Read 60 Write 56.5 Mixed 57.7 44% 58.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.2 72% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 33.5% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 181928880 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1041 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 4409018913 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14852 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 298 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 131074 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 68 35 288318554144 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 22 22 157388 (C2) HDA temperature 32 65 77309411360 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -104002633060349 (F1) Unknown 100 253 94881067617753 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16696874519196	56.8% Above average	Read 95.1 Write 103 Mixed 37.4 58% 78.5 MB/s	4K Read 1.08 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.32 98% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 114%
WDC WD40 EZRZ-00WN9B0 4TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2.5TB free, PID 8017 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	44.4% Average	Read 118 Write 118 Mixed 80.7 133% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 0.42 4K Mixed 0.24 26% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 44.4% Great: 61%
ASMT 2115 1TB 378 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 514GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	35.7% Below average	Read 94.8 Write 73.2 Mixed 46.3 85% 71.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.31 78% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 35.7% Great: 189%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1333 C9 4x4GB 267 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	45.8% Average	MC Read 17.5 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 15.6 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 12.6 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 69.5 58% 69.5 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 86%

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

Raft

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 - $100

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	570x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	210x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	110x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	74x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	66x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	61x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	46x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	39x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	35x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	106x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	85x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	82x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $440

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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