Gigabyte GA-990FX-GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	102% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FX-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	21.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 06 '18 at 21:26
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.7% Very good	Memory 90.9 1-Core 75.6 2-Core 148 64% 105 Pts	4-Core 296 8-Core 464 47% 380 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2822 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.36 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 133 Reflection 144 Parallax 122 108% 133 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 112 Splatting 110 91% 111 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 8GB free Firmware: V2.8 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 473 Write 343 Mixed 300 82% 372 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 60.9 4K Mixed 12.4 88% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 111 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 18.4 47% 96.7 MB/s
Poor: 36% Great: 83%
Seagate ST1000NM0011 1TB 6,787 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 837GB free (System drive) Firmware: SN03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 130 120 126 135 138 139 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	Read 147 Write 125 Mixed 77 SusWrite 131 88% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 1.1 202% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 84%
Seagate ST1000NM0011 1TB 6,787 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 449GB free Firmware: SN03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 134 133 135 135 135 137 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	74.1% Very good	Read 123 Write 126 Mixed 68 SusWrite 135 83% 113 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 1 190% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Vulcan-2400 4x4GB 268 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.8% Average	MC Read 18.9 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 17.2 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.7 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.9 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 66 61% 66 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 89%

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

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FX-GAMING

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	122x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	33x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	32x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	17x
R9 380AMD $200Bench 33%, 83,027 samples	16x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	12x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	11x
GP-ASM2NE2256GTTDR 256GBGigabyteBench 158%, 4,456 samples	10x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	9x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	24x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 60%, 1,520 samples	8x
F3 DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 45%, 445 samples	7x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $303

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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