Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.48% 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	56.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 (all builds)
Memory	8.5 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20100824
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Nov 06 '17 at 14:33
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7 X 980-$148 8,133 User benchmarks, average bench 76% Socket 1366, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.35 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 94.9 1-Core 85 2-Core 170 70% 117 Pts	4-Core 341 8-Core 555 55% 448 Pts	64-Core 630 39% 630 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5870 10,176 User benchmarks, average bench 19% Asus(1043 032E) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	7.48% Terrible	Lighting 9 Reflection 7.65 Parallax 10.1 7% 8.91 fps	MRender 7.52 Gravity 9.57 Splatting 10.7 8% 9.26 fps
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 7.48% Great: 20%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LS 240GB-$110 4,081 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFC01.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd 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 13757 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 465 (A2) Unknown 100 100 532 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4391046 (AE) Unknown 100 100 66 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 66 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 5 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10425 (F2) Unknown 100 100 11779	56.2% Above average	Read 375 Write 236 Mixed 289 66% 300 MB/s	4K Read 20 4K Write 37.3 4K Mixed 11.7 65% 23 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 12.1 52% 120 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 91%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8600 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1309 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 39354 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 789 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 305 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1003 (C2) HDA temperature 118 85 34 (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	67.5% Good	Read 124 Write 111 Mixed 112 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.62 4K Mixed 0.54 147% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 85%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 157 151 11125 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1127 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16576 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 539 (10) Unknown 2 198 38398637135 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1028 (C2) HDA temperature 119 116 33 (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	82.2% Excellent	Read 151 Write 135 Mixed 135 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 3.2 4K Mixed 0.21 115% 1.39 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 112%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 188GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8483 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1257 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 46 46 39776 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 781 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 221 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1035 (C2) HDA temperature 117 85 35 (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	65.6% Good	Read 122 Write 106 Mixed 111 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 1.07 4K Write 2.77 4K Mixed 0.5 152% 1.44 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6x2GB 38,297 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 6 of 6 slots used 12GB DIMM Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	47.6% Average	MC Read 17.4 MC Write 15.2 MC Mixed 17.5 48% 16.7 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 11.4 29% 10 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 59%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 35%

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Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7

CPU
Core i7-950Intel $100Bench 66%, 36,389 samples	66x
Core i7-920Intel $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples	59x
Core i7 X 980Intel $148Bench 76%, 8,133 samples	49x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	30x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	17x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	15x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	14x

RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples	78x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples	66x
3x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 39,448 samples	37x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $390

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16