Gigabyte GA-990FX-GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (32nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 68 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 72.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	77.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	48.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

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, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FX-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	22.2 GB free of 24 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 03:24
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing below expectations (32^nd 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 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	Memory 88.9 1-Core 82.8 2-Core 163 67% 112 Pts	4-Core 301 8-Core 506 49% 404 Pts	64-Core 510 32% 510 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% AMD(1002 6B76) CLim: 1712 MHz, MLim: 1060 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.4.1 Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.8% Very good	Lighting 82.5 Reflection 94 Parallax 191 67% 122 fps	MRender 91.9 Gravity 127 Splatting 134 98% 118 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 60GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5243268 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 50105088486798 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2191 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1159 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 22 51 4298309654 (C2) HDA temperature 22 51 4298309654 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5243268 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5243268 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5243268 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 94 94 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 27490 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14041 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14041 (F2) Unknown 0 0 16992 (F4) Unknown 93 93 14680288	48.9% Average	Read 432 Write 112 Mixed 187 53% 244 MB/s	4K Read 19.7 4K Write 66.9 4K Mixed 10.5 79% 32.4 MB/s	DQ Read 27 DQ Write 72.8 DQ Mixed 8.97 19% 36.3 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 75%
Crucial BX100 500GB-$40 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 38GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 92 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 366 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 65 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 3551 (A5) Unknown 100 100 18 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 102 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4930 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 40236 (F2) Unknown 100 100 34748 (F5) Unknown 100 100 56816	81.1% Excellent	Read 518 Write 430 Mixed 464 105% 471 MB/s	4K Read 19.4 4K Write 62 4K Mixed 18.8 86% 33.4 MB/s	DQ Read 205 DQ Write 169 DQ Mixed 68.1 83% 147 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 157GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 20141752 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4318 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 61 191214234 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13786 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2615 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 79 796 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 54 387383319 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1781 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 71520 (C2) HDA temperature 23 46 23 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 140 117497 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 10887742105796 (F1) Unknown 100 253 41813906413 (F2) Unknown 100 253 459511604428
Poor: 55% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-1600C11-8G F3-12800CL7-4 F3-1600C11-8G F3-12800CL7-4 24GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 800, 667, 800, 667 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	45.7% Average	MC Read 18.5 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 14.3 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 12.8 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 51%

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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 $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