Gigabyte GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 52% Yacht	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 51.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	8.39% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	34% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (39%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	5.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160128
Uptime	12.2 Days
Run Date	May 10 '17 at 12:20
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	39%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon II X3 450-$80 4,468 User benchmarks, average bench 44% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 3 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	51.2% Above average	Memory 78.8 1-Core 47 2-Core 94.4 48% 73.4 Pts	4-Core 140 8-Core 140 19% 140 Pts	64-Core 138 9% 138 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 51%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 730 164,888 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 8A9F) 1GB CLim: 1126 MHz, MLim: 1302 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	8.39% Terrible	Lighting 10.4 Reflection 9.35 Parallax 11.1 8% 10.3 fps	MRender 12.4 Gravity 9.13 Splatting 8.91 8% 10.2 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 8.39% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LS 60GB-$57 3,190 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: S9FM02.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11197 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 531 (A2) Unknown 75 75 49 (AA) Unknown 100 100 77 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 46487565 (AE) Unknown 100 100 16 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 2 (E7) Temperature 100 100 76 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5920 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2762	34% Below average	Read 456 Write 48.2 Mixed 105 43% 203 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 30.5 4K Mixed 2.48 43% 16.1 MB/s	DQ Read 15.5 DQ Write 33.3 DQ Mixed 2.51 8% 17.1 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 34% Great: 89%
WD Blue 250GB (2007)-$20 41,230 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 54GB free Firmware: 03.03E03 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 12 (03) Spinup time 135 129 4233 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4461 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 33292 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3997 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 1 258 (BC) Unknown 100 97 66 (BE) vendor-specific 70 49 30 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 705 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4461 (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	32.6% Below average	Read 61.5 Write 51.9 Mixed 50.1 41% 54.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.27 82% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 32.6% Great: 55%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2x4GB 741 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32% Below average	MC Read 13.7 MC Write 7.1 MC Mixed 12.1 31% 11 GB/s	SC Read 7.7 SC Write 6.6 SC Mixed 8.7 22% 7.67 GB/s	Latency 82.9 48% 82.9 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 32% Great: 50%

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

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	101x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	36x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	17x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	15x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	12x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	9x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	7x
A400 120GBKingston $30Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	5x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	12x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	8x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	6x

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Total price: $217

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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