Gigabyte GA-M720-US3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 47% Yacht	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 46.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	9.69% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 (97%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-M720-US3 (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20090916
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 20 '18 at 17:17
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	97%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ 5,400 User benchmarks, average bench 37% Socket M2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 2.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	46.2% Average	Memory 80.2 1-Core 38.3 2-Core 75.5 44% 64.7 Pts	4-Core 74.7 8-Core 73.8 10% 74.2 Pts	64-Core 77.6 5% 77.6 Pts
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 46.2% Great: 45%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI HD 4870 22,563 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Gigabyte(1458 21B4) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001 Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	9.69% Terrible	Lighting 12.4 Reflection 10.7 Parallax 9.09 10% 10.7 fps	MRender 8.76 Gravity 8.6 Splatting 13.8 9% 10.4 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.69% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3160815A 160GB-$48 702 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 126GB free Firmware: 3.AAD Max speed: UDMA 100 100 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 98 182164415 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3025 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 217695762 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5465 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2677 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 50 572522530 (C2) HDA temperature 34 50 68719476770 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 87 71 166161888 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	17.5% Very poor	Read 29.9 Write 30.6 Mixed 19.9 20% 26.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.44 100% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 17.5% Great: 41%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB-$80 27,325 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 100GB free (System drive) Firmware: SD15 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 87 18237171 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7641 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 73648931823 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15296 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 31 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7604 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 59 59 41 (BC) Unknown 100 99 141736083518 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 53 572391458 (C2) HDA temperature 34 47 38654705698 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 26 18237171 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3	40.6% Average	Read 68.7 Write 72.7 Mixed 30.3 42% 57.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.3 76% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	23.3% Poor	MC Read 8.1 MC Write 6.8 MC Mixed 7.1 21% 7.33 GB/s	SC Read 6.2 SC Write 6.9 SC Mixed 6.2 18% 6.43 GB/s	Latency 80.2 50% 80.2 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 23.3% Great: 45%

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Gaming 27%

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Desktop 60%

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Workstation 20%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M720-US3

CPU
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 51%, 41,403 samples	5x
Athlon II X2 250 (2013 D.Ri)AMDBench 40%, 19,471 samples	4x
Phenom II X4 965AMD $144Bench 53%, 43,442 samples	3x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	3x
GeForce 9800 GTNvidiaBench 5%, 19,550 samples	2x
GTX 650 Ti BoostNvidia $140Bench 17%, 15,701 samples	2x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x
WDS1 20G2G0A-00JH 120GBWDCBench 39%, 6 samples	3x
Burst 480GBPatriotBench 76%, 16,899 samples	3x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	17x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	12x
3x2GBUnknownBench 30%, 45,030 samples	5x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $311

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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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