Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 73.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	87.2% 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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB 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.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 (all builds)
Memory	3.5 GB free of 6 GB @ 0.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20091110
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 25 '18 at 23:28
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7 975-$550 3,143 User benchmarks, average bench 72% Socket 1366, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.35 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	73.9% Very good	Memory 95.6 1-Core 87.9 2-Core 168 71% 117 Pts	4-Core 284 8-Core 424 44% 354 Pts	64-Core 438 27% 438 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 113 Parallax 95.4 90% 107 fps	MRender 95.8 Gravity 100 Splatting 101 81% 98.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Intel Raid 1 Volume 1TB 8,129 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 804GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 74 85 87 104 106 107 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	65.3% Good	Read 133 Write 146 Mixed 57.3 SusWrite 93.8 79% 108 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1.1 212% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 108%
WD My Book 1235 6TB 444 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 5.5TB free, PID 1235 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 15 15 15 15 15 15 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	15.7% Very poor	Read 33.7 Write 31.1 Mixed 28.9 SusWrite 14.9 36% 27.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1.1 122% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 15.7% Great: 69%
WDC WD50 00AAKS-00V1A0 500GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 238GB free, PID 2336 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 14 14 14 14 14 14 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	10.9% Very poor	Read 31.3 Write 28.5 Mixed 27.3 SusWrite 14.3 33% 25.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.7 60% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 10.9% Great: 15%
WD My Book 1230 4TB 14,665 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 937GB free, PID 1230 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 90 89 91 92 91 90 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	37.5% Below average	Read 85 Write 91.5 Mixed 69.4 SusWrite 90.5 115% 84.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.9 91% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 37.5% Great: 60%
WD My Book 1230 6TB 1,283 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 4.5TB free, PID 1230 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 15 15 15 15 15 15 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	16.2% Very poor	Read 34.5 Write 30.3 Mixed 28.8 SusWrite 15.1 36% 27.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1 122% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 16.2% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3x2GB 45,030 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 3 of 6 slots used 6GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	53.1% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 20.2 53% 18.5 GB/s	SC Read 12 SC Write 11.1 SC Mixed 14 35% 12.4 GB/s	Latency 55.2 72% 55.2 ns
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 52%

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

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Gaming 35%

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Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7

CPU
Core i7-950Intel $100Bench 66%, 36,389 samples	66x
Core i7-920Intel $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples	59x
Core i7 X 980Intel $148Bench 76%, 8,133 samples	49x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	30x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	17x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	15x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	14x

RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples	79x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples	66x
3x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 39,448 samples	37x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $394

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $250	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16