Gigabyte GA-990FX-GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 73.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very 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.

Very high background CPU (42%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FX-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	26.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 12 '18 at 00:38
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	42%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^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% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	Memory 93 1-Core 76.6 2-Core 153 66% 107 Pts	4-Core 293 8-Core 461 46% 377 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.36 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 147 Parallax 127 116% 139 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 138 Splatting 110 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 10GB free Firmware: V2.8 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 466 Write 340 Mixed 299 82% 368 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 63.4 4K Mixed 12.6 89% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 111 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 17.6 45% 94.2 MB/s
Poor: 36% Great: 83%
Seagate ST1000NM0011 1TB 6,787 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 837GB free (System drive) Firmware: SN03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 127 125 121 136 141 136 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	74.7% Very good	Read 129 Write 126 Mixed 75.2 SusWrite 131 85% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 1.1 202% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 84%
Seagate ST1000NM0011 1TB 6,787 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 448GB free Firmware: SN03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 135 134 132 135 135 133 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	77.2% Very good	Read 135 Write 124 Mixed 70.2 SusWrite 134 85% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 1 186% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Vulcan-2400 4x4GB 268 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.8% Average	MC Read 19.1 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 17 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 9.4 SC Mixed 13.5 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 89%

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

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Desktop 72%

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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