Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 68.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	80.6% 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	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

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121022
Uptime	6.8 Days
Run Date	Aug 11 '18 at 13:28
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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% Socket M2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.6% Good	Memory 91.7 1-Core 72.4 2-Core 142 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 247 8-Core 441 41% 344 Pts	64-Core 435 27% 435 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 68%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.6% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 109 Parallax 97.7 83% 103 fps	MRender 94.1 Gravity 96.7 Splatting 89 76% 93.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 87%
Nvidia GTX 460-$203 31,648 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Nvidia(10DE 0804) 768MB CLim: 700 MHz, MLim: 924 MHz, Ram: 768MB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	11.5% Very poor	Lighting 13.1 Reflection 16.2 Parallax 4.41 11% 11.2 fps	MRender 20.6 Gravity 13.3 Splatting 14.9 13% 16.3 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 11.5% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 274GB free (System drive) Firmware: JC4B SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 87 87 95 95 93 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	61.5% Good	Read 123 Write 122 Mixed 58.6 SusWrite 91.6 72% 98.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 1 172% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1TB free Firmware: CC1H SusWrite @10s intervals: 115 115 112 115 115 116 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	63.7% Good	Read 107 Write 110 Mixed 54.9 SusWrite 115 71% 96.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.9 162% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 201 201 199 203 203 203 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	117% Outstanding	Read 205 Write 168 Mixed 73.6 SusWrite 202 118% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.9 159% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 114%
Maxtor OneTouch 250GB 159 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 220GB free, PID 7310 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 30 30 30 30 30 30 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	14.7% Very poor	Read 30.1 Write 22.3 Mixed 26.1 SusWrite 29.7 36% 27 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.8 71% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 14.7% Great: 19%

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 above expectations (83^rd percentile)	50.4% Above average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 15.5 MC Mixed 17.8 51% 18 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.2 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 61%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

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 $175Bench 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 $273	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 $179	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