Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	68% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	64.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170607
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 20 '18 at 10:52
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (74^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% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.8 GHz, turbo 4.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.7% Very good	Memory 94.1 1-Core 83.8 2-Core 157 68% 112 Pts	4-Core 288 8-Core 528 49% 408 Pts	64-Core 527 33% 527 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6267) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2452 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 398.82 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	68% Good	Lighting 85.2 Reflection 81.8 Parallax 72.7 70% 79.9 fps	MRender 88.6 Gravity 76.7 Splatting 75.2 65% 80.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 12,393 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 87GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 SusWrite @10s intervals: 153 74 92 93 93 93 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	64.2% Good	Read 442 Write 394 Mixed 339 SusWrite 99.6 71% 319 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 48.8 4K Mixed 25.7 93% 32.3 MB/s	DQ Read 287 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 163 151% 234 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 91%
Spcc Solid State Disk 512GB 30,264 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 443GB free Firmware: Q1124A0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 382 389 412 389 384 385 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	79.2% Very good	Read 451 Write 383 Mixed 334 SusWrite 390 88% 389 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 87 4K Mixed 18.3 101% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 109 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 25.1 61% 123 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 102%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 927GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 184 181 184 186 186 185 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 182 Mixed 96.7 SusWrite 184 120% 163 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1.2 242% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 21,220 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	52.7% Above average	MC Read 21.1 MC Write 16.5 MC Mixed 17.9 53% 18.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 10.1 SC Mixed 15.5 36% 12.6 GB/s	Latency 59.5 67% 59.5 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 62%

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

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA - $299

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	431x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	13x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $588

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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