Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 68.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	65.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150528
Uptime	2.8 Days
Run Date	Sep 28 '16 at 17:29
Run Duration	208 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	52%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.8% Good	Memory 87.8 1-Core 72.4 2-Core 138 61% 99.2 Pts	4-Core 270 8-Core 459 44% 364 Pts	64-Core 458 28% 458 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 21.19.137.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.8% Good	Lighting 84.4 Reflection 58.7 Parallax 106 69% 82.9 fps	MRender 59.4 Gravity 80.8 Splatting 76.6 60% 72.3 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 4GB free Firmware: R211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 107 16623232 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 16 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 -75591424392420 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 626 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 3493 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 3570 (C2) HDA temperature 36 52 51543015460 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16623232 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16623232 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16623232 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17387 (EA) Unknown 0 0 23081 (F1) Unknown 0 0 23081 (F2) Unknown 0 0 34423	43.4% Average	Read 293 Write 147 Mixed 169 45% 203 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 54.5 4K Mixed 10.9 72% 28.2 MB/s	DQ Read 20.9 DQ Write 66 DQ Mixed 11 18% 32.6 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 81%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 777GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 76 76 8170 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10340 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 15898 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4811 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 1203 (B8) Unknown 1 1 750 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 57 403636248 (C2) HDA temperature 73 56 487522331 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 23089 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3625 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 10 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	62.8% Good	Read 105 Write 114 Mixed 113 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.39 109% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 62%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 135GB free (System drive) Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 173 169 6350 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4700 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14639 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3292 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 912 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 149 149 155798 (C2) HDA temperature 114 96 36 (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 200 197 81 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	32.3% Below average	Read 53.4 Write 58.8 Mixed 62.5 44% 58.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 32.3% Great: 67%
StoreJet Transcend 1TB 14,954 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 176GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	30.3% Below average	Read 64.6 Write 73 Mixed 47.6 79% 61.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.27 66% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 30.3% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 4x4GB 127 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	46.6% Average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 15.5 MC Mixed 16.1 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 9 SC Mixed 13.7 31% 11 GB/s	Latency 69.8 57% 69.8 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 46.6% Great: 72%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 28%

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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 $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