Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 70.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	88.6% 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	40.8% 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	6.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141229
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 24 '16 at 11:16
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	SRB-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^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 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.6% Very good	Memory 93.8 1-Core 71.3 2-Core 134 63% 99.8 Pts	4-Core 258 8-Core 441 42% 349 Pts	64-Core 441 27% 441 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 115 Parallax 99.1 92% 109 fps	MRender 98.3 Gravity 102 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st 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 95 95 173232939 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 77214922057275 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1064 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 70 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 40 1009319936031 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 1009319936031 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 173232939 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 173232939 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 173232939 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 15512 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10021 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10021 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12878	40.8% Average	Read 193 Write 102 Mixed 149 33% 148 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 76.7 4K Mixed 9.12 80% 34.8 MB/s	DQ Read 72.1 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 6.99 28% 62.2 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 75%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$53 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1TB free Firmware: JKAOA3GB Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 100 98 (03) Spinup time 114 100 51581092471 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6530 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 119 100 36 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 16265 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 6454 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 279238085321 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 52 539295780 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6531 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6531 (C2) HDA temperature 166 125 206158888996 (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	69.3% Good	Read 120 Write 121 Mixed 115 89% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.35 90% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GB 7,567 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	50% Above average	MC Read 22 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 16.1 50% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 13.4 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 60.4 66% 60.4 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 50%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	939x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	854x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	395x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	279x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	157x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	140x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	109x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	148x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	68x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 39%, 4,786 samples	61x

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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