Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	67.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	18.9% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	5040 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140909
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 24 '16 at 07:44
Run Duration	475 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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% Socket M2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.1 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75.3% Very good	Memory 93.6 1-Core 84.7 2-Core 167 69% 115 Pts	4-Core 309 8-Core 512 50% 411 Pts	64-Core 516 32% 516 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.300.2311.0 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	67.1% Good	Lighting 85.6 Reflection 58.9 Parallax 124 70% 89.5 fps	MRender 59 Gravity 90.8 Splatting 75.6 62% 75.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 1.5TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 899GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.10 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	18.9% Very poor	Read 173 Write 157 Mixed 174 38% 168 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 9.11 4K Mixed 0.83 7% 3.65 MB/s	DQ Read 3.8 DQ Write 8.81 DQ Mixed 1.31 2% 4.64 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 18.9% Great: 138%
WD WD10EACS-00ZJB0 1TB 28,352 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 250GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	43.5% Average	Read 81.8 Write 69.5 Mixed 71.7 56% 74.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.26 85% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 51%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 170GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	47.5% Average	Read 83.3 Write 81.8 Mixed 80.1 62% 81.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.26 88% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 57%
JetFlash Transcend 16GB 14,782 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 15GB free, PID 4000 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	12.9% Very poor	Read 42.1 Write 4.76 Mixed 8.3 16% 18.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 1.28 109% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 12.9% Great: 33%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 16GB 1,276 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 13GB free, PID 005b Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	7.45% Terrible	Read 29.9 Write 6.12 Mixed 10.2 15% 15.4 MB/s	4K Read 7.44 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.006 28% 2.48 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 7.45% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	53.1% Above average	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 16.8 MC Mixed 18.5 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 11.4 SC Write 9 SC Mixed 13.5 32% 11.3 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 61%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

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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