Asrock 970M Pro3

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 52% Yacht	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (4th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 96 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 53.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	10.8% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (63%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock 970M Pro3 (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160617
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Dec 12 '20 at 20:43
Run Duration	291 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	63%

PC Performing way below expectations (4^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 2.85 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	53.1% Above average	Memory 76.6 1-Core 45.9 2-Core 51.5 42% 58 Pts	4-Core 193 8-Core 78.7 21% 136 Pts	64-Core 83.8 5% 83.8 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6870 25,443 User benchmarks, average bench 15% AMD(1002 00D0) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.3001.0 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	10.8% Very poor	Lighting 14.3 Reflection 17.1 Parallax 16.2 12% 15.9 fps	MRender 10.7 Gravity 12.7 Splatting 10.2 9% 11.2 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 10.8% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 64GB-$92 7,336 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 9GB free Firmware: 070H SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 70 93 87 86 85 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	36.5% Below average	Read 364 Write 96.5 Mixed 130 SusWrite 84.7 37% 169 MB/s	4K Read 15.1 4K Write 24.7 4K Mixed 11 50% 16.9 MB/s	DQ Read 24.7 DQ Write 56.8 DQ Mixed 14.8 19% 32.1 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 65%
Crucial MX500 250GB-$40 77,177 User benchmarks, average bench 101% 101GB free Firmware: M3CR023 SusWrite @10s intervals: 238 198 281 249 245 237 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	48.8% Average	Read 305 Write 267 Mixed 250 SusWrite 241 60% 266 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 12.9 4K Mixed 22 63% 17.8 MB/s	DQ Read 28.6 DQ Write 47.4 DQ Mixed 34.6 27% 36.9 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 123%
Asrock RAM Disk 0GB 0GB free Firmware: 1.00 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples		Read 1,408 Write 751 Mixed 1,769 292% 1,309 MB/s	4K Read 103 4K Write 25.2 4K Mixed 67.2 255% 65.1 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 182 131% 170 MB/s

Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2018)-$50 695,066 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 48 21 31 28 45 50 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	37.2% Below average	Read 92.5 Write 127 Mixed 68 SusWrite 37 60% 81.2 MB/s	4K Read 1.6 4K Write 0.6 4K Mixed 0.4 122% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 106%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown NMUD380D81-1600C 2x8GB 575 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1066 MHz clocked @ 533 MHz Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	29.8% Poor	MC Read 7.8 MC Write 10.9 MC Mixed 12.2 29% 10.3 GB/s	SC Read 6.3 SC Write 6.6 SC Mixed 6.8 19% 6.57 GB/s	Latency 87.2 46% 87.2 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 29.8% Great: 61%

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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 68%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Asrock 970M Pro3

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	289x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 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 $80Bench 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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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $217

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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