Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 24% Surfboard


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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	35.3% 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	93.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	26.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150528
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '18 at 15:30
Run Duration	262 Seconds
Run User	CHE-User
Background CPU	29%

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
AMD FX-9590-$298 26,109 User benchmarks, average bench 63% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	68.1% Good	Memory 83.8 1-Core 75.8 2-Core 150 62% 103 Pts	4-Core 284 8-Core 447 45% 365 Pts	64-Core 458 28% 458 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Gigabyte(1458 36BE) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	35.3% Below average	Lighting 45.9 Reflection 44.7 Parallax 44.3 37% 45 fps	MRender 39.2 Gravity 40.5 Splatting 36.1 31% 38.6 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 35.3% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 477GB free Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	265% Outstanding	Read 2,099 Write 1,689 Mixed 1,838 418% 1,875 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 64.8 221% 79.7 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 95.8 100% 165 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 265% Great: 353%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 477GB free Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	269% Outstanding	Read 2,118 Write 1,758 Mixed 1,883 428% 1,920 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 130 4K Mixed 64.1 219% 79.8 MB/s	DQ Read 227 DQ Write 169 DQ Mixed 97.6 100% 165 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 269% Great: 353%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 477GB free Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	266% Outstanding	Read 2,088 Write 1,713 Mixed 1,860 420% 1,887 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 64.3 221% 80.4 MB/s	DQ Read 228 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 99.1 101% 166 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 266% Great: 353%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 477GB free Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	266% Outstanding	Read 2,092 Write 1,706 Mixed 1,863 420% 1,887 MB/s	4K Read 45.8 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 64.8 222% 80.6 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 172 DQ Mixed 98.8 102% 167 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 266% Great: 353%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 466GB free Firmware: 1B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	174% Outstanding	Read 1,282 Write 914 Mixed 1,053 241% 1,083 MB/s	4K Read 54.9 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 44.7 196% 68.3 MB/s	DQ Read 223 DQ Write 140 DQ Mixed 80.7 87% 148 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 174% Great: 254%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 174GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6575 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 974 (B1) Unknown 98 98 34 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 55 43 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 84 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42628517207	93.5% Outstanding	Read 491 Write 379 Mixed 409 95% 426 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 64.9 4K Mixed 41.6 139% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 209 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 76.6 82% 138 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 134%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$137 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 7.5TB free Firmware: AR17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 39808120 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 325 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 6017658 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1734 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 324 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 60 622264357 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 114 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 431 (C2) HDA temperature 37 40 77309411365 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 111 99 39808120 (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 55551107007426 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16042124121 (F2) Unknown 100 253 258322238	86.5% Excellent	Read 166 Write 134 Mixed 116 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 1.25 4K Write 6.89 4K Mixed 0.33 217% 2.82 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4808368 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 348 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3401078 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1876 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 345 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 58 50 722862122 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 188 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 562 (C2) HDA temperature 42 50 73014444074 (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 -115130893334715 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4854153332 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1047045548	84.7% Excellent	Read 138 Write 157 Mixed 132 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.32 97% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 4x8GB 198 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	43.6% Average	MC Read 16.7 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 14.8 44% 15.4 GB/s	SC Read 9.8 SC Write 8.4 SC Mixed 11.8 29% 10 GB/s	Latency 73.8 54% 73.8 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 43.6% Great: 96%

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

Raft

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 - $100

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	570x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	210x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	110x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	74x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	66x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	61x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	46x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	39x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	35x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	106x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	85x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	82x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $440

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