Gateway DX430

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 40% Jet ski	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 48.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	1.82% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Gateway DX430 (all builds)
Motherboard	Intel DG965OT
Memory	1.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20071206
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Nov 06 '16 at 01:36
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (57^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 Q6700-$44 6,294 User benchmarks, average bench 44% LGA 775, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.65 GHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	48.2% Average	Memory 76.3 1-Core 30.8 2-Core 61.2 39% 56.1 Pts	4-Core 119 8-Core 119 16% 119 Pts	64-Core 121 8% 121 Pts
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 50%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon HD 2600-PRO 190 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Sapphire(174B E410) 512MB Driver: aticfx32.dll Ver. 8.970.100.1100 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	1.82% Terrible	Lighting 2.07 Reflection 4.15 Parallax 1 2% 2.41 fps	MRender 2.33 Gravity 0.87 Splatting 3.87 2% 2.36 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.82% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 411GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3821 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 680 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 63 51 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5453964938
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 500GB-$59 47,815 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 427GB free Firmware: JP2O Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 94 (03) Spinup time 117 117 12897681603 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2606 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 140 30 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 15233 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2582 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2621 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2621 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 236224118817 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2	42.4% Average	Read 78.8 Write 69 Mixed 69.2 54% 72.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.36 75% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 42.4% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR2 Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	17.2% Very poor	MC Read 5.6 MC Write 4.7 MC Mixed 4.9 14% 5.07 GB/s	SC Read 5 SC Write 4.7 SC Mixed 5.3 14% 5 GB/s	Latency 87.7 46% 87.7 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 17.2% Great: 45%

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Gaming 7%

Tree trunk

Desktop 45%

Speed boat

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

System: Gateway DX430

CPU
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	1x

GPU
GTX 550-TiNvidia $250Bench 9%, 54,392 samples	1x

SSD
WDS200T2B0A-00SM50 2TBWDCBench 98%, 8,872 samples	1x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	1x

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Value: 22% - Poor

Total price: $350

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $40	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