Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 57% Gunboat	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 49.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	26.3% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	58.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L (all builds)
Memory	2.6 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20081107
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Sep 14 '16 at 20:25
Run Duration	488 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Extreme Q6850 1,078 User benchmarks, average bench 47% Socket 775, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	49.7% Average	Memory 76.2 1-Core 34.4 2-Core 69.1 41% 59.9 Pts	4-Core 137 8-Core 136 18% 136 Pts	64-Core 137 8% 137 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 54%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-Ti-$362 42,960 User benchmarks, average bench 26% PNY(196E 1000) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7270 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	26.3% Poor	Lighting 31.4 Reflection 31.3 Parallax 43.9 26% 35.6 fps	MRender 40.3 Gravity 36.4 Splatting 27.1 28% 34.6 fps
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 26.3% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6169 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2277 (B1) Unknown 97 97 32 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 57 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 98 98 1065 (EB) Unknown 99 99 834 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6303073959	58.6% Above average	Read 259 Write 177 Mixed 161 44% 199 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 49.1 4K Mixed 19.4 107% 35.3 MB/s	DQ Read 190 DQ Write 76.5 DQ Mixed 33.3 51% 99.9 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 108%
OCZ Agility 3 240GB-$199 10,165 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 10GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 5042073 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 5 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -140600049391626 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2079 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1142 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5042073 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 5 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5042073 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5042073 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8839 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10733 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10733 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18139	50.3% Above average	Read 193 Write 165 Mixed 131 36% 163 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 67.5 4K Mixed 14.8 90% 35.3 MB/s	DQ Read 136 DQ Write 137 DQ Mixed 41.9 58% 105 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 66%
ACSC2M064mSA 63GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1GB free Firmware: 20151204 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (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 100 100 292 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 184 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 71 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1 (A3) Unknown 100 100 25 (A4) Unknown 100 100 1572281 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1575 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1519 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1536 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 43 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 23823 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6793 (F5) Unknown 100 100 3144299	24.1% Poor	Read 262 Write 11.6 Mixed 22.3 21% 98.8 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 6.42 4K Mixed 4.77 46% 11.7 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 24.1% Great: 55%
Msft Virtual Disk 1TB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 48GB free Firmware: 1.0 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	94.7% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 163 Mixed 120 112% 150 MB/s	4K Read 1.03 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.19 98% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 95%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$97 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 0GB free Firmware: MX6OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 141 141 34386280853 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 381 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 808 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 106 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 381 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 381 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 184684904479 (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	105% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 192 Mixed 116 120% 161 MB/s	4K Read 1.21 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.2 107% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 108%
TOSHIBA TransMemory 16GB 16,813 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 3GB free, PID 6544 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	5.18% Terrible	Read 21.1 Write 4.69 Mixed 7.14 11% 11 MB/s	4K Read 4.64 4K Write 0.002 4K Mixed 0.01 18% 1.55 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.18% Great: 9%
JetFlash Transcend 16GB 14,782 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 1GB free, PID 1000, TRANSCEND 3.0 16GB Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	24.4% Poor	Read 115 Write 17 Mixed 20.5 45% 50.9 MB/s	4K Read 6.48 4K Write 0.81 4K Mixed 0.66 74% 2.65 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 24.4% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x2GB 446,702 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 2 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	19.1% Very poor	MC Read 5.9 MC Write 5.9 MC Mixed 5.6 17% 5.8 GB/s	SC Read 5.9 SC Write 5.9 SC Mixed 4.6 16% 5.47 GB/s	Latency 87.8 46% 87.8 ns
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 44%

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Gaming 7%

Tree trunk

Desktop 44%

Speed boat

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L

CPU
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	12x
Xeon E5450Intel $195Bench 51%, 10,801 samples	9x
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $89Bench 40%, 68,540 samples	7x

GPU
GTX 550-TiNvidia $250Bench 9%, 54,392 samples	7x
HD 4870ATIBench 9%, 22,563 samples	6x
GeForce 9600 GTNvidiaBench 4%, 20,826 samples	5x

SSD
CS900 120GBPNY $25Bench 69%, 42,924 samples	6x
P3-128 128GBBench 63%, 3,189 samples	3x
SSD Plus 240GBSanDisk $30Bench 61%, 133,640 samples	3x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	39x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	14x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	6x

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Value: 21% - Poor

Total price: $375

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $109	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16