Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 56% Gunboat	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 60.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	36.1% 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)
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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	0.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 24 '17 at 16:36
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 2.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Memory 82 1-Core 23.6 2-Core 44.8 38% 50.1 Pts	4-Core 220 8-Core 294 33% 257 Pts	64-Core 296 18% 296 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 770-$279 116,895 User benchmarks, average bench 34% EVGA(3842 2776) 2GB CLim: 1267 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	36.1% Below average	Lighting 42.6 Reflection 40.1 Parallax 53 35% 45.2 fps	MRender 56.6 Gravity 51.9 Splatting 38.2 39% 48.9 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5505 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1526 (B1) Unknown 97 97 25 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 52 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 258 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13759699327
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 750GB-$55 4,103 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 201GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 243876636 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 831 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16754407 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 975 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 825 (B7) Unknown 1 1 199 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 65558 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 57 454295579 (C2) HDA temperature 27 43 68719476763 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 47 45 243876636 (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 133547713104839 (F1) Unknown 100 253 796438909 (F2) Unknown 100 253 368036885	38.4% Below average	Read 65.1 Write 68.5 Mixed 68.3 51% 67.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.5 101% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 38.4% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS2G3D1609DS 4x2GB 23 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	29.1% Poor	MC Read 10.6 MC Write 9.4 MC Mixed 9.7 28% 9.9 GB/s	SC Read 5.7 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 7.2 17% 6.07 GB/s	Latency 77 52% 77 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 29.1% Great: 91%

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	157x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	15x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
A400 120GBKingston $30Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	12x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2x8GBCorsairBench 46%, 237 samples	9x

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Total price: $217

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16