Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 57% Gunboat	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 64.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	6.23% 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	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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130408
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 09 '17 at 02:59
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	PER-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	64.5% Good	Memory 89.3 1-Core 66 2-Core 122 58% 92.3 Pts	4-Core 221 8-Core 290 32% 255 Pts	64-Core 289 18% 289 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 240 58,337 User benchmarks, average bench 5% PwrHis(1787 2014) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	6.23% Terrible	Lighting 7.03 Reflection 8.73 Parallax 8.72 6% 8.16 fps	MRender 9.43 Gravity 6 Splatting 10.3 7% 8.59 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.23% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: KC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 19472 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2337 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 17772278463 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11383 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2330 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065858 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 54 471269404 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 68719476764 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 39 19472 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -31486405235615 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1475466449 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3887705070	43.1% Average	Read 81.4 Write 68.8 Mixed 69.2 55% 73.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.95 4K Mixed 0.34 70% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 31GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 130362555 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11311 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 61 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 31502857 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14707 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5872 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 150326149190 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 52 504954907 (C2) HDA temperature 27 48 64424509467 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 21 130362555 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 17776869672138 (F1) Unknown 100 253 888161776 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1122167561	43% Average	Read 68.5 Write 81.1 Mixed 27.3 43% 59 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.39 89% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 3x4GB 133 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	45.3% Average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 13.2 MC Mixed 15.2 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.6 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 10 28% 9.63 GB/s	Latency 68.1 59% 68.1 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 72%

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

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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	940x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 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	158x

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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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