Asrock 990FX Extreme3

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 70.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	93.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	61% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asrock 990FX Extreme3 (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130715
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 15 '18 at 20:34
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.6% Very good	Memory 92.4 1-Core 77 2-Core 141 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 265 8-Core 467 44% 366 Pts	64-Core 461 28% 461 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3236) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1641 MHz, MLim: 1801 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 123 Parallax 120 98% 121 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 110 Splatting 98.8 84% 104 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 175GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0330AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^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 100 100 556 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 401 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 44 (A3) Unknown 100 100 536 (94) Unknown 100 100 67790 (95) Unknown 100 100 949 (96) Unknown 100 100 802 (97) Unknown 100 100 916 (A4) Unknown 100 100 23719 (A5) Unknown 100 100 81 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 34 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 45261072695330 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 191167 (F2) Unknown 100 100 352649 (F5) Unknown 100 100 280180 (F6) Unknown 100 100 271160 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	61% Good	Read 466 Write 232 Mixed 254 70% 317 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 38.7 4K Mixed 17.2 80% 26.8 MB/s	DQ Read 117 DQ Write 78.9 DQ Mixed 12 32% 69.3 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 95%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 53 (03) Spinup time 253 253 7258 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1736 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13550 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1722 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 170 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1565 (C2) HDA temperature 115 97 37 (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 1	77.1% Very good	Read 137 Write 132 Mixed 134 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 2.57 4K Mixed 0.5 150% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GB 1,183 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 800 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.7% Average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 16.3 MC Mixed 16.5 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 9.8 SC Mixed 13.6 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 80%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical 990FX Extreme3 Builds (Compare 298 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 33%

Sail boat

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 27%

Raft

Motherboard: Asrock 990FX Extreme3 - $200

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	89x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	54x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	43x

GPU
R9 290AMD $399Bench 46%, 68,699 samples	15x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	15x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	12x

SSD
MX500 500GBCrucial $46Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	17x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	12x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	11x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	14x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	9x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	5x

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Value: 39% - Below average

Total price: $775

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