Gigabyte GA-990FX-GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 63% Destroyer	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 53.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	31.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	129% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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.

Very high background CPU (44%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FX-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	25.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Sep 15 '17 at 14:38
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	44%

PC Performing as expected (40^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 GHz Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	53.4% Above average	Memory 70.9 1-Core 55.5 2-Core 115 49% 80.4 Pts	4-Core 195 8-Core 367 34% 281 Pts	64-Core 378 23% 378 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.94 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	29.7% Poor	Lighting 36.4 Reflection 33.2 Parallax 35.9 30% 35.2 fps	MRender 40.5 Gravity 35.6 Splatting 34.3 30% 36.8 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 29.7% Great: 54%
AMD HD 7950-$290 33,820 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Sapphire(174B 3000) 3GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	31.1% Below average	Lighting 40.4 Reflection 28.9 Parallax 50.5 33% 39.9 fps	MRender 27.7 Gravity 35.6 Splatting 36.5 28% 33.3 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 31.1% Great: 32%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 480GB-$300 1,985 User benchmarks, average bench 144% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: OC34L5TM Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 344 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 8368 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 204 (64) Unknown 100 100 8970496 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 34 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 68 (B2) Unknown 100 100 43 (B4) Unknown 100 100 19022 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 49 100 266288824369 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 344 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 198 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 344 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 17176 (F1) Unknown 100 100 11243 (F2) Unknown 100 100 27153 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 3806	129% Outstanding	Read 1,023 Write 892 Mixed 420 172% 778 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 46.4 4K Mixed 18.1 92% 31.1 MB/s	DQ Read 166 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 23.2 51% 105 MB/s
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 181%
Corsair Neutron XTi 480GB-$247 664 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 70GB free Firmware: SAFC Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st 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 2940 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 45 (A2) Unknown 100 100 582 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65540 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C2) HDA temperature 97 97 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 576 (F2) Unknown 100 100 725	81.8% Excellent	Read 502 Write 464 Mixed 485 108% 484 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 53.5 4K Mixed 13.4 84% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 234 DQ Write 175 DQ Mixed 65 86% 158 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 112%
Corsair Neutron GTX SSD 244GB 65 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 40GB free Firmware: M306 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 164 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 286 (09) Power-on hours count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1420 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 294 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 294 (C2) HDA temperature 29 0 60132818973 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 98 98 3 (EA) Unknown 100 100 172180 (F1) Unknown 100 100 22739 (F2) Unknown 100 100 42124 (FA) Read error retry rate 253 253 0	77.1% Very good	Read 487 Write 318 Mixed 459 94% 421 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 51.8 4K Mixed 26.8 96% 33.6 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 169 DQ Mixed 82.5 92% 157 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 100%
Hitachi HDN 724040ALE640 4TB 253 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1TB free Firmware: MJAO Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 78 (03) Spinup time 128 128 51579257435 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 7559 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 119 119 35 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7943 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 128 (C0) Power-off retract count 94 94 7627 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 7627 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 184684314659 (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 200 200 824	80.7% Excellent	Read 152 Write 129 Mixed 112 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 0.59 4K Mixed 0.23 68% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 90%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 4x8GB 112 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	37.7% Below average	MC Read 15 MC Write 13.5 MC Mixed 13.7 40% 14.1 GB/s	SC Read 5.9 SC Write 6.1 SC Mixed 6.8 18% 6.27 GB/s	Latency 99.4 40% 99.4 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 106%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FX-GAMING

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	122x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	33x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	32x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	17x
R9 380AMD $200Bench 33%, 83,027 samples	16x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	12x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	11x
GP-ASM2NE2256GTTDR 256GBGigabyteBench 158%, 4,456 samples	10x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	9x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	24x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 60%, 1,520 samples	8x
F3 DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 45%, 445 samples	7x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $303

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 $179	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