Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 51% Yacht	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 50.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	9.71% 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	36% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	4GB 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. 4GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L (all builds)
Memory	1.9 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20080815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '18 at 10:42
Run Duration	231 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Quad Q9550-$161 34,093 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Socket 775, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.85 GHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	50.9% Above average	Memory 74.2 1-Core 40.7 2-Core 79.7 43% 64.9 Pts	4-Core 162 8-Core 161 22% 162 Pts	64-Core 163 10% 163 Pts
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 57%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI HD 4870 22,563 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Gigabyte(1458 21B8) 1GB Driver: atiumd64.dll Ver. 8.632.1.2000 Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	9.71% Terrible	Lighting 12.9 Reflection 10.5 Parallax 8.47 10% 10.6 fps	MRender 8 Gravity 7.93 Splatting 12.6 8% 9.5 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.71% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 136GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 6481473 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 136227772698078 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1907 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 28 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 20 41 38657392660 (C2) HDA temperature 20 41 38657392660 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6481473 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6481473 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6481473 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5340 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6513 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6513 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12073	36% Below average	Read 133 Write 146 Mixed 112 29% 131 MB/s	4K Read 18.6 4K Write 54 4K Mixed 8.81 68% 27.1 MB/s	DQ Read 21.4 DQ Write 81.2 DQ Mixed 9.59 20% 37.4 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB-$80 27,325 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 215GB free Firmware: SD1A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4890863 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 10029 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 255449008 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14560 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 95 37 5491 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 227636741304 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 84 58 336396304 (C2) HDA temperature 16 42 30064771088 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 27 16 4890863 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 22	48.5% Average	Read 84 Write 84.8 Mixed 30.8 49% 66.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.49 122% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 140GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 82364440 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4595 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 145932639 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 6003 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3196 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 83 52 336461841 (C2) HDA temperature 17 48 38654705681 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 28 82364440 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -78816944833724 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2957548025 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2857450463	55.7% Above average	Read 105 Write 89.4 Mixed 28.1 54% 74 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.4 100% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 68%
Maxtor STM3250824AS 250GB 105 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 129GB free Firmware: 3.AAJ Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 77 83363363 (03) Spinup time 90 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 18378 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 795193450338 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19172 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7180 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 82 48 303104018 (C2) HDA temperature 18 52 38654705682 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 68 48 157001123 (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	16.7% Very poor	Read 42 Write 15.9 Mixed 23.6 20% 27.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.38 4K Mixed 0.21 55% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 16.7% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x2GB 446,702 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 2 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	21.3% Poor	MC Read 7.3 MC Write 6.2 MC Mixed 6.5 19% 6.67 GB/s	SC Read 5.7 SC Write 6.6 SC Mixed 6.8 18% 6.37 GB/s	Latency 92.1 43% 92.1 ns
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 21.3% Great: 44%

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Gaming 4%

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Desktop 40%

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Workstation 4%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L

CPU
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $89Bench 40%, 68,540 samples	10x
Core2 Quad Q9400Intel $170Bench 46%, 24,176 samples	7x
Core2 Quad Q8400Intel $150Bench 45%, 18,432 samples	6x

GPU
GeForce 210NvidiaBench 1%, 98,254 samples	9x
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	5x
Radeon HD 5450AMDBench 1%, 66,079 samples	5x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	4x
Green 240GB (2018)WD $42Bench 45%, 156,194 samples	4x
BX500 480GBCrucial $38Bench 63%, 83,298 samples	3x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	39x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	14x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	9x

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Value: 47% - Average

Total price: $117

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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