Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Tree trunk	Desktop 70% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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	14.3% 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	68.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 (73%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	5.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130715
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 27 '17 at 03:56
Run Duration	326 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	73%

PC Performing above expectations (84^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 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.6% Very good	Memory 92.2 1-Core 67.7 2-Core 145 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 266 8-Core 471 44% 369 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Sapphire(174B E244) 1GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1125 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 17.4.4 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	14.3% Very poor	Lighting 18.1 Reflection 16.7 Parallax 22.7 15% 19.2 fps	MRender 13.6 Gravity 16.2 Splatting 18.7 14% 16.2 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.3% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 12,393 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 264 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 33 (A8) Unknown 100 100 6 (AA) Unknown 100 100 89 (AD) Unknown 100 100 196623 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C2) HDA temperature 98 98 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 3 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 528	68.7% Good	Read 506 Write 321 Mixed 335 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 44.3 4K Mixed 9.99 76% 26.8 MB/s	DQ Read 195 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 45.2 65% 122 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 91%
Samsung HD502HI 500GB-$154 24,344 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 420GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 91 91 3720 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8410 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 1 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10905 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 31197 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3742 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 85 66 252641295 (C2) HDA temperature 82 63 302972946 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 589407 (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 100 100 41 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 5 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	58.4% Above average	Read 99.8 Write 104 Mixed 96.8 75% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.37 96% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 59%
Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00 250GB-$30 3,183 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 233GB free Firmware: BBFOC31P Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 154 154 21474836480 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 6112 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 16557 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 4654 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 366 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 206291 (C2) HDA temperature 220 220 270583332889 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	31.2% Below average	Read 56 Write 52.4 Mixed 15.7 30% 41.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.33 80% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 31.2% Great: 31%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 16GB 67 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 15GB free, PID 00e2 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	5.09% Terrible	Read 20.1 Write 4.93 Mixed 6.38 10% 10.5 MB/s	4K Read 4.6 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.007 18% 1.54 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 5.09% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1600 C8 2x4GB 205 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	50.1% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 15.5 MC Mixed 17.8 51% 18 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 11 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 51%

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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 $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 $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