Asrock 970 Extreme4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 65% Battle cruiser	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 64%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	18.7% 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	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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock 970 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131111
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Aug 24 '16 at 09:21
Run Duration	291 Seconds
Run User	IDN-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	64% Good	Memory 83.5 1-Core 68.3 2-Core 123 57% 91.7 Pts	4-Core 242 8-Core 395 39% 319 Pts	64-Core 413 26% 413 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 (SLI Disabled) 1,205 User benchmarks, average bench 27% Nvidia(10DE 0868) 1.5GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7254 Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	18.7% Very poor	Lighting 21.9 Reflection 33.6 Parallax 24.3 18% 26.6 fps	MRender 33 Gravity 17.2 Splatting 25 20% 25 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 18.7% Great: 31%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Hitachi HUA721010KLA330 1TB-$28 10,651 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 834GB free (System drive) Firmware: GKAOAB0A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 125 125 55870816818 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 71 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 136 136 31 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 48415 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 68 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 156 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 156 (C2) HDA temperature 150 150 249109151784 (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	38.1% Below average	Read 66.4 Write 66 Mixed 66.7 50% 66.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.39 103% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 38.1% Great: 46%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 4 (03) Spinup time 175 168 4216 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4959 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11358 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3412 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 924 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4034 (C2) HDA temperature 107 90 40 (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 200 200 489 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	42.1% Average	Read 78.3 Write 68.3 Mixed 77.9 56% 74.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.34 85% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 76%
Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 2TB-$249 29,211 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 0GB free Firmware: MN6OA800 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 85 (03) Spinup time 132 132 34388246962 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1443 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 135 135 26 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 11590 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1202 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1735 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1735 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 279174184993 (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 1	54.7% Above average	Read 99.1 Write 91.2 Mixed 57 61% 82.5 MB/s	4K Read 1.08 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.46 132% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 0GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 210611760 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1161 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 33377955 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4263 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 951 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 17180131336 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 65 50 588972067 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 201 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 17780 (C2) HDA temperature 35 50 77309411363 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 36405 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -71824738088133 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24166040702 (F2) Unknown 100 253 18453310650	94.1% Outstanding	Read 163 Write 165 Mixed 102 107% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.29 98% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 114%
Seagate Portable 1TB 1,255 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 13GB free, PID 2300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	16.2% Very poor	Read 38.2 Write 38.4 Mixed 11.4 35% 29.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 0.71 4K Mixed 0.16 31% 0.42 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 16.2% Great: 17%
Seagate Portable 500GB 3,247 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 3GB free, PID 2300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	16.5% Very poor	Read 37.3 Write 37.7 Mixed 8.15 33% 27.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 0.89 4K Mixed 0.35 44% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 16.5% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1GX64V133I MTI 1GX64V133I MTI 24GB 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	42.3% Average	MC Read 16.7 MC Write 13.8 MC Mixed 14.5 43% 15 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 7.9 SC Mixed 11.2 27% 9.5 GB/s	Latency 74.4 54% 74.4 ns

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Asrock 970 Extreme4 - $107

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	127x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	73x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	59x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	31x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	24x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	21x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	15x
850 Evo 120GBSamsung $80Bench 96%, 69,224 samples	13x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	13x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	12x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	9x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	9x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $396

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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