Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 39.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	5.27% 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 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

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

System	Gigabyte M56S-S3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3 (all builds)
Memory	0.8 GB free of 2 GB @ 0.4 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20070926
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 08 '21 at 18:00
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	BIH-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+-$150 1,985 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Socket M2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.5 GHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	39.1% Below average	Memory 66.6 1-Core 37.3 2-Core 69.5 38% 57.8 Pts	4-Core 71.3 8-Core 70.4 10% 70.9 Pts	64-Core 70.9 4% 70.9 Pts
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 46%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 240 58,337 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 048B) 2GB Driver: aticfx32.dll Ver. 13.251.0.0 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	5.27% Terrible	Lighting 6.3 Reflection 9.1 Parallax 8.8 5% 8.07 fps	MRender 7.6 Gravity 6.8 Splatting 6.2 6% 6.87 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.27% Great: 6%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 250GB (2008)-$80 11,055 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01B01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 41 38 33 49 49 47 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	28.5% Poor	Read 56 Write 45 Mixed 40.5 SusWrite 42.9 34% 46.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.7 135% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 28.5% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x1GB 68,489 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 2 of 4 slots used 2GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	19.1% Very poor	MC Read 6.5 MC Write 6 MC Mixed 6 18% 6.17 GB/s	SC Read 4.3 SC Write 6.4 SC Mixed 5 15% 5.23 GB/s	Latency 110 36% 110 ns
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 20%

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

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Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 43%

Speed boat

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3

CPU
Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+AMDBench 41%, 5,594 samples	6x
Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+AMDBench 39%, 3,286 samples	4x
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 51%, 41,403 samples	2x

GPU
GeForce GT 710NvidiaBench 3%, 187,161 samples	5x
GeForce 210NvidiaBench 1%, 98,254 samples	3x
GeForce 8600 GTNvidiaBench 2%, 8,099 samples	3x

SSD
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	3x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	2x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	1x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	7x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	6x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	5x

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Value: 22% - Poor

Total price: $52

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16