Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 64% Destroyer	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 57%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	23.3% 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	68.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (82%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 20 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 16 '16 at 23:50
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	82%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	57% Above average	Memory 70.3 1-Core 68.7 2-Core 136 54% 91.5 Pts	4-Core 241 8-Core 320 36% 281 Pts	64-Core 380 24% 380 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 370-$153 39,178 User benchmarks, average bench 21% Sapphire(174B 2015) CLim: 985 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 16.12.1 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	23.3% Poor	Lighting 28.2 Reflection 30.2 Parallax 36.2 23% 31.5 fps	MRender 27.2 Gravity 22.4 Splatting 35.5 24% 28.4 fps
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 23.3% Great: 23%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Apotop S SD S3C 256GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: N053 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^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 2946 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 798 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 57001 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 4 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 38 (A3) Unknown 100 100 32 (A4) Unknown 100 100 37843 (A5) Unknown 100 100 95 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 37 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 164485 (F2) Unknown 100 100 164254	68.1% Good	Read 485 Write 202 Mixed 336 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 50 4K Mixed 26.9 95% 33.1 MB/s	DQ Read 172 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 32.2 59% 116 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 82%
Hup72202 0APA330 2TB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1.5TB free Firmware: JKAO Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 107 (03) Spinup time 116 116 51580371572 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1724 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 116 116 37 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 34389 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 663 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1761 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1761 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 231929217055 (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	61.4% Good	Read 108 Write 106 Mixed 103 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 0.52 4K Mixed 0.34 78% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL10- F3-12800CL10- F3-14900CL9-4 20GB 667, 667, 800 MHz 8192, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	22% Poor	MC Read 7.7 MC Write 7.5 MC Mixed 7.3 21% 7.5 GB/s	SC Read 4.8 SC Write 4.4 SC Mixed 4.4 13% 4.53 GB/s	Latency 101 40% 101 ns

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

Surfboard

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

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	954x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	863x
FX-8320AMD $125Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	400x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	283x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	181x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	162x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	142x
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	150x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	69x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 39%, 4,786 samples	62x

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