Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 64% Destroyer	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	8.49% 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.
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 9 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.

High background CPU (25%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	10.6 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	1 Days
Run Date	May 20 '17 at 03:53
Run Duration	222 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing as expected (52^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 (90^th percentile)	66.3% Good	Memory 84.8 1-Core 70.9 2-Core 142 60% 99.2 Pts	4-Core 270 8-Core 326 38% 298 Pts	64-Core 143 9% 143 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 260-$250 11,945 User benchmarks, average bench 7% BFG(19F1 0CDD) 896MB Ram: 896MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	8.49% Terrible	Lighting 11.6 Reflection 8.96 Parallax 5.5 10% 8.69 fps	MRender 9.05 Gravity 9.27 Splatting 6.61 7% 8.31 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 8.49% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 154GB free Firmware: EXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19284 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 709 (B1) Unknown 98 98 84 (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 70 56 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 391 (F1) Unknown 99 99 35650426562	101% Outstanding	Read 493 Write 438 Mixed 494 106% 475 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 80.3 4K Mixed 42.6 138% 50.1 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 127 127% 206 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 128GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1961 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 264 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 55 48 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 5 (EB) Unknown 99 99 169 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4010330200
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 95GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4745239 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 -102701257941773 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 978 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 574 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4745239 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4745239 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4745239 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 19213 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14780 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14780 (F2) Unknown 0 0 16953	57.8% Above average	Read 500 Write 121 Mixed 207 60% 276 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 41.7 4K Mixed 14.9 87% 29 MB/s	DQ Read 136 DQ Write 91.1 DQ Mixed 38.6 49% 88.5 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 82%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 205 155 6725 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4278 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 26 26 54450 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1054 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 576 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 401331 (C2) HDA temperature 120 90 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	52.7% Above average	Read 95.1 Write 88.5 Mixed 25.6 51% 69.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.16 80% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 310GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 151453114 (03) Spinup time 100 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4478 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 25 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 196233503 (09) Power-on hours count 27 27 64173 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 9 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1355 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 644 (BE) vendor-specific 63 47 740556837 (C2) HDA temperature 37 53 47244640293 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 15 151453114 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 69930657566771 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2427875887 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3697464818	47.8% Average	Read 86.9 Write 79.7 Mixed 15.1 44% 60.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.45 107% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 1,467 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	42.8% Average	MC Read 15.6 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 15.2 43% 15.1 GB/s	SC Read 9.5 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 11.5 28% 9.67 GB/s	Latency 72.1 56% 72.1 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 51%

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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 $300	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 $40	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