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Performance Results


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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 50.2%, 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	51.1% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (all builds)
Memory	6.3 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	May 27 '18 at 19:55
Run Duration	232 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (54^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 (42^nd percentile)	50.2% Above average	Memory 71.3 1-Core 43 2-Core 86.7 43% 67 Pts	4-Core 170 8-Core 170 23% 170 Pts	64-Core 173 11% 173 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 50.2% 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 14.9 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% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: N053 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^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 2195 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5509 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 110 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 74634 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 7 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 100 (A3) Unknown 100 100 29 (A4) Unknown 100 100 137191 (A5) Unknown 100 100 185 (A6) Unknown 100 100 84 (A7) Unknown 100 100 135 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 318 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9225 (F2) Unknown 100 100 10974	51.1% Above average	Read 372 Write 157 Mixed 223 55% 251 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 55.6 4K Mixed 15.6 85% 31.5 MB/s	DQ Read 22.9 DQ Write 50.9 DQ Mixed 57.1 38% 43.6 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 82%
Mb2000eb ZQC 2TB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 2TB free Firmware: HPG0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 64 64 2763411 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 4 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 2225 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 15 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4618795 (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 64 64 606339108 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 15 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 94489280548 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2763411 (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 200 200 0	86.2% Excellent	Read 147 Write 153 Mixed 147 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.5 134% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$91 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 635GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 97 33110136 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6663 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 48696662 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11834 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2785 (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 64 47 606273572 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1198 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 17891 (C2) HDA temperature 36 53 8589934628 (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 99407018068629 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27062990554 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8713741971	84.8% Excellent	Read 156 Write 140 Mixed 104 99% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.24 69% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 113%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$46 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 260GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 135 3983 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12616 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16443 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3565 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1523 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11092 (C2) HDA temperature 106 93 37 (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	62.6% Good	Read 112 Write 106 Mixed 24.6 59% 80.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.28 80% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$60 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 188GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 193369500 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8721 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 4307140601 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5233 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4643 (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 66 53 572653602 (C2) HDA temperature 34 47 25769803810 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 15 193369500 (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 -86380382242890 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3762215056 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3665805811	49.6% Average	Read 89.9 Write 82.8 Mixed 51.7 56% 74.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.52 100% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 68%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 141GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 167 2183 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11810 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 18052 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3658 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1416 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10393 (C2) HDA temperature 108 89 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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	77.9% Very good	Read 133 Write 138 Mixed 141 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 1.23 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.17 108% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 77.9% 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 (42^nd percentile)	20.1% Poor	MC Read 6.3 MC Write 6.5 MC Mixed 6 18% 6.27 GB/s	SC Read 5.5 SC Write 6.4 SC Mixed 6.6 18% 6.17 GB/s	Latency 98.3 41% 98.3 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 20.1% 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 $50Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	7x
Core2 Quad Q9650Intel $170Bench 51%, 16,719 samples	6x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	4x
Radeon HD 3870ATIBench 6%, 554 samples	4x
GeForce GT 240NvidiaBench 4%, 11,020 samples	3x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $80Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	3x
A400 240GBKingston $25Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	3x
A400 480GBKingston $35Bench 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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Total price: $436

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $129
Intel Core i5-13600K $210	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $389	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $80
Intel Core i5-12400F $111	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $389