Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L

Performance Results


Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 29% Raft	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 36.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	5.95% 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	44.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	3GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 3GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
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.

Very high background CPU (96%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L (all builds)
Memory	1.7 GB free of 3 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20080102
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '17 at 09:00
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	96%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Pentium E5400-$75 14,795 User benchmarks, average bench 36% Socket 775, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	36.5% Below average	Memory 65.4 1-Core 29.1 2-Core 42.4 33% 45.6 Pts	4-Core 47.8 8-Core 48.5 6% 48.2 Pts	64-Core 58.6 4% 58.6 Pts
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 43%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 19,550 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gainward(10B0 0401) 1GB Ram: 1GB, Driver: 341.44 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	5.95% Terrible	Lighting 8 Reflection 4.65 Parallax 2.59 6% 5.08 fps	MRender 7.14 Gravity 5.97 Splatting 5.04 5% 6.05 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.95% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Ultimate SU800 128GB-$30 32,167 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: Q0125A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 136 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 77 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 38 (A3) Unknown 100 100 6 (A4) Unknown 100 100 4414 (A5) Unknown 100 100 34 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 8 (94) Unknown 100 100 4141 (95) Unknown 100 100 162 (96) Unknown 100 100 1 (97) Unknown 100 100 121 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1500 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 37 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 8742 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 8742 (F2) Unknown 100 100 15825 (F5) Unknown 100 100 35312	44.8% Average	Read 243 Write 168 Mixed 153 42% 188 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 41.1 4K Mixed 11.9 78% 26.7 MB/s	DQ Read 33.2 DQ Write 66.3 DQ Mixed 14.8 21% 38.1 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 326GB free Firmware: CC62 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 70 203644697 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 126 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1169377 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 256 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 108 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 88 932022124761 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 64 353304597 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 130 (C2) HDA temperature 21 15 64424509461 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 2 203644697 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 154 57636 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -17012365459204 (F1) Unknown 100 253 580434554 (F2) Unknown 100 253 139497604	86.8% Excellent	Read 167 Write 136 Mixed 59.3 89% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.24 75% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3GB 81,553 User benchmarks, average bench 14% null MHz 2048, 1024 MB Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	14.6% Very poor	MC Read 5.5 MC Write 4 MC Mixed 4.2 13% 4.57 GB/s	SC Read 3.3 SC Write 3.2 SC Mixed 4.1 10% 3.53 GB/s	Latency 113 36% 113 ns
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 14.6% Great: 23%

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Gaming 2%

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Desktop 38%

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Workstation 2%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L

CPU
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	25x
Pentium E5200Intel $50Bench 36%, 13,848 samples	19x
Core2 Quad Q9400Intel $170Bench 46%, 24,176 samples	14x

GPU
GeForce 210NvidiaBench 1%, 98,254 samples	15x
GeForce 9500 GTNvidiaBench 2%, 27,834 samples	13x
Radeon HD 4670ATIBench 4%, 21,442 samples	13x

SSD
A400 120GBKingston $32Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	10x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	8x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	4x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	184x
3GBUnknownBench 14%, 81,553 samples	22x
1x2GBUnknownBench 17%, 99,586 samples	14x

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Value: 44% - Average

Total price: $132

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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