Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 51% Yacht	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 50.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	10.4% 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	51.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20090622
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 05 '18 at 11:27
Run Duration	225 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (56^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 Q9650-$170 16,719 User benchmarks, average bench 51% Socket 775, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.8 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	50.9% Above average	Memory 72.5 1-Core 43.3 2-Core 84.1 44% 66.6 Pts	4-Core 172 8-Core 172 23% 172 Pts	64-Core 172 11% 172 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 58%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R9 M360 1,374 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Device(1B0A 90F3) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 18.4.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	10.4% Very poor	Lighting 12.1 Reflection 15.6 Parallax 15 10% 14.2 fps	MRender 13.1 Gravity 10.2 Splatting 17.1 11% 13.5 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 10.4% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ssd2sc12 0G1SA754D117-820 120GB 111 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: N053 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^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 2213 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5562 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 113 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 74971 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 8 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 100 (A3) Unknown 100 100 29 (A4) Unknown 100 100 139233 (A5) Unknown 100 100 187 (A6) Unknown 100 100 86 (A7) Unknown 100 100 137 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 322 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9382 (F2) Unknown 100 100 11138	51.2% Above average	Read 374 Write 159 Mixed 225 56% 253 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 55.6 4K Mixed 15.4 84% 31.4 MB/s	DQ Read 23.3 DQ Write 53.1 DQ Mixed 52.2 36% 42.8 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 82%
MB2000EBZQC 2TB 993 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2TB free Firmware: HPG0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 73 64 21253072 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 132 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 10167 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 132 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 69 (B4) Unknown 100 100 28059156 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 60 572588066 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 62 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 160 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 90194313250 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 109 100 21253072 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	82.4% Excellent	Read 148 Write 139 Mixed 96.1 95% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.53 139% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 635GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 97 46782200 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6806 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 48705811 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11967 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2841 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 66 47 572588066 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1237 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18176 (C2) HDA temperature 34 53 8589934626 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 32 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 32 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -72739566122341 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27068158072 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8719613992	85.8% Excellent	Read 163 Write 136 Mixed 105 100% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.16 63% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 113%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 256GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 138 135 4066 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12755 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16579 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3621 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1530 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11224 (C2) HDA temperature 108 93 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 575820 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	59.9% Above average	Read 108 Write 101 Mixed 108 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.35 77% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 188GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 197836153 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8797 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 4307147215 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5267 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4699 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 92 42950328347 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 53 538968096 (C2) HDA temperature 32 47 25769803808 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 15 197836153 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 194 1768 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -53738630793134 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3766426779 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1948795861	48.5% Average	Read 85.5 Write 83.5 Mixed 83.2 63% 84.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.36 82% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 68%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 139GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 167 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11955 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 18190 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3714 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1472 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10482 (C2) HDA temperature 109 89 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	86.7% Excellent	Read 151 Write 152 Mixed 125 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.27 80% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	21% Poor	MC Read 6.5 MC Write 6.7 MC Mixed 6.3 19% 6.5 GB/s	SC Read 5.9 SC Write 6.9 SC Mixed 7.2 19% 6.67 GB/s	Latency 95.8 42% 95.8 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 21% Great: 45%

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Gaming 50%

Yacht

Desktop 59%

Gunboat

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6

CPU
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $161Bench 49%, 34,093 samples	10x
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	7x
Core2 Quad Q9650Intel $170Bench 51%, 16,719 samples	6x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	4x
Radeon HD 3870ATIBench 6%, 554 samples	4x
GeForce GT 240NvidiaBench 4%, 11,020 samples	3x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	3x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	3x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	2x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	32x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	5x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	4x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $627

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