Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2C

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU, SSD
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 38.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
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	2GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows however a minimum of 4GB is recommended for gaming or any other RAM intensive tasks such as photo/video editing. This system will also be a little more responsive with 4GB of RAM.
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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2C (all builds)
Memory	1 GB free of 2 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20071108
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '17 at 02:11
Run Duration	208 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Pentium Dual E2160-$47 4,697 User benchmarks, average bench 32% Socket 775, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	38.3% Below average	Memory 69.7 1-Core 23.6 2-Core 50.3 34% 47.9 Pts	4-Core 43.2 8-Core 47.5 6% 45.3 Pts	64-Core 48.6 3% 48.6 Pts
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 38.3% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Maxtor STM3250310AS 250GB 13,068 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 334GB free Firmware: 3.AAC Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 80 184977224 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8786 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 101 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 196843155 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13355 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6482 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1867 (BD) vendor-specific 40 40 60 (BE) vendor-specific 68 44 555089952 (C2) HDA temperature 32 56 73014444064 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 72 46 70471405 (C5) Current pending sector count 99 81 30 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 99 81 30 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	42% Average	Read 75 Write 71.5 Mixed 28.8 43% 58.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.29 65% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 42% Great: 53%
Seagate ST3750640AS 750GB-$60 7,916 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 444GB free Firmware: 3.CHN Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14756 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 56 54 5515227013461 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 40613 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 87 87 13412 (B8) Unknown 100 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 25 25 75 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 69 49 538247199 (C2) HDA temperature 31 51 60129542175 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 77 52 68893149 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 1 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	32.3% Below average	Read 56.6 Write 55.9 Mixed 25.9 34% 46.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.22 65% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 32.3% Great: 42%
Seagate ST500LM012 HN-M500MBB 500GB 47,588 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 108GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2AR10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2511 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 86 80 4452 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7083 (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 11539 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 76 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3466 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 33 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 42 249108955163 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 1 1 50476 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 76 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 243705	45.2% Average	Read 84.3 Write 73.4 Mixed 76 59% 77.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.11 4K Write 0.54 4K Mixed 0.09 24% 0.25 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 59%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB-$22 80,932 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 27GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 151 142 1450 (04) Start/Stop count 42 42 58667 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11066 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2321 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 339 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 331 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 146 146 162617 (C2) HDA temperature 117 89 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	41.5% Average	Read 57.1 Write 87.3 Mixed 53.2 49% 65.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 61%
Seagate ST340014A 40GB-$43 906 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 15GB free Firmware: 8.10 Max speed: UDMA 100 100 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 64 57 819636 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1007 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 436498884 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6232 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1687 (C2) HDA temperature 32 45 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 64 54 819636 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 195 5 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	18% Very poor	Read 26.6 Write 35.7 Mixed 25.6 22% 29.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 0.89 4K Mixed 0.36 82% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 18% Great: 31%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x1GB 68,489 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 2 of 2 slots used 2GB DIMM Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	15.8% Very poor	MC Read 5.6 MC Write 4.3 MC Mixed 4.3 14% 4.73 GB/s	SC Read 5 SC Write 4.3 SC Mixed 4.5 13% 4.6 GB/s	Latency 102 39% 102 ns
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 15.8% Great: 20%

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Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 37%

Jet ski

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2C

CPU
Pentium E5700Intel $22Bench 36%, 20,872 samples	6x
Core2 Duo E8500Intel $110Bench 42%, 18,841 samples	5x
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $89Bench 40%, 68,540 samples	4x

GPU
GeForce 210NvidiaBench 1%, 98,254 samples	8x
GeForce GT 710NvidiaBench 3%, 187,161 samples	7x
GeForce 9500 GTNvidiaBench 2%, 27,834 samples	2x

SSD
SSD Plus 120GBSanDisk $42Bench 58%, 87,912 samples	4x
X007-240GB 240GBImramBench 66%, 1 sample	4x
A400 120GBKingston $32Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	2x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	22x
3GBUnknownBench 14%, 81,553 samples	4x
1x2GBUnknownBench 17%, 99,586 samples	3x

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Value: 31% - Below average

Total price: $64

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