Asrock 970M Pro3

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 66.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	22.9% 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	44.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock 970M Pro3 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 27 '16 at 16:35
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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-$90 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 2.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	66.8% Good	Memory 93.8 1-Core 66.3 2-Core 130 61% 96.5 Pts	4-Core 223 8-Core 285 32% 254 Pts	64-Core 281 17% 281 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6970 9,594 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Sapphire(174B E284) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	22.9% Poor	Lighting 28.6 Reflection 24.5 Parallax 27.6 23% 26.9 fps	MRender 22.7 Gravity 26.1 Splatting 30.2 22% 26.3 fps
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 22.9% Great: 22%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8723167 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 3015067049642 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3009 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 2120 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 49 1017910460446 (C2) HDA temperature 30 49 1017910460446 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8723167 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8723167 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8723167 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 94 94 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16993 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10274 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10274 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12170 (F4) Unknown 96 96 196739197	44.8% Average	Read 252 Write 103 Mixed 147 37% 167 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 57.6 4K Mixed 13.3 82% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 82.5 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 26.3 40% 75.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 73%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$50 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 827GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 164 4275 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4592 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17125 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4312 (C0) Power-off retract count 196 196 3067 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 311112 (C2) HDA temperature 118 100 29 (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 200 192 2596 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	58.2% Above average	Read 135 Write 67.2 Mixed 95.9 75% 99.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.18 65% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 84%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 414GB free Firmware: 2AR20002 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 90 89 3056 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2657 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4576 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 53 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2664 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 654 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 53 201864314909 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1923 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 53 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 112190	43.4% Average	Read 69.3 Write 82 Mixed 71.3 56% 74.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.25 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.16 57% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 59%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$65 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 298GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 136 133 4183 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5414 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 1 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14333 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4433 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 822 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5414 (C2) HDA temperature 110 85 33 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	56.1% Above average	Read 94 Write 101 Mixed 93.1 72% 96.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.44 110% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2133C11D3/4GX KHX2133C11D3/4GX KHX2133C11D3/4GX 133C11D3/4GX 16GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	56.6% Above average	MC Read 24.4 MC Write 16.3 MC Mixed 20.7 58% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 9.4 SC Mixed 14.3 33% 11.6 GB/s	Latency 60.3 66% 60.3 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 57%

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Asrock 970M Pro3

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	289x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	228x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	70x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	92x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	51x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	47x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	27x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
TEAMGROUP-UD3-1600 2x8GBUnknownBench 52%, 6,864 samples	35x
NMUD380D81-1600C 1x8GBUnknownBench 28%, 485 samples	26x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	24x

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Total price: $217

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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