Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 19% Surfboard	Workstation 0% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 39.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	5.87% 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	2GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows however a minimum of 4GB is recommended for gaming or any other RAM intensive tasks such as photo/video editing. This system will also be a little more responsive with 4GB of RAM.
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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L (all builds)
Memory	1 GB free of 2 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20080708
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 08:25
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th 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 2.1 GHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	39.6% Below average	Memory 70 1-Core 30.3 2-Core 59 37% 53.1 Pts	4-Core 57.9 8-Core 54.1 8% 56 Pts	64-Core 57.4 4% 57.4 Pts
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 39.6% Great: 43%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 19,550 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Elitegroup(1019 1A0E) 1GB Ram: 1GB, Driver: 341.44 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	5.87% Terrible	Lighting 7.87 Reflection 7.96 Parallax 2.59 6% 6.14 fps	MRender 6.81 Gravity 5.9 Splatting 5.22 5% 5.98 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.87% Great: 6%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 160GB (2007)-$24 56,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 104GB free (System drive) Firmware: 05.06H05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 154 3066 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1747 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18727 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1577 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 350 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1762 (C2) HDA temperature 101 92 42 (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	35% Below average	Read 60.2 Write 61.4 Mixed 29.3 37% 50.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.37 95% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 35% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2GB 9,823 User benchmarks, average bench 15% null MHz 512, 1024, 512 MB Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	14.8% Very poor	MC Read 4.8 MC Write 4 MC Mixed 4.2 12% 4.33 GB/s	SC Read 4.3 SC Write 4.3 SC Mixed 4.6 13% 4.4 GB/s	Latency 101 39% 101 ns
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 14.8% Great: 27%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 5%

Tree trunk

Desktop 43%

Speed boat

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L

CPU
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $89Bench 40%, 68,540 samples	15x
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $161Bench 49%, 34,093 samples	14x
Core2 Quad Q9400Intel $170Bench 46%, 24,176 samples	11x

GPU
GeForce 9600 GTNvidiaBench 4%, 20,826 samples	7x
GeForce 210NvidiaBench 1%, 98,254 samples	6x
GTX 660Nvidia $170Bench 20%, 123,956 samples	6x

SSD
530 Series 120GBIntel $79Bench 67%, 15,015 samples	5x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	3x
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	3x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	52x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	20x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	9x

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Value: 32% - Below average

Total price: $168

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	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