Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P (all builds)
Memory	26.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 25 '16 at 05:49
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$175 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.7% Very good	Memory 91.4 1-Core 76.5 2-Core 149 65% 106 Pts	4-Core 281 8-Core 456 45% 369 Pts	64-Core 457 28% 457 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7254 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 139 Parallax 128 106% 132 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 128 Splatting 105 93% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 192 100 704 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 455 (A6) Unknown 100 100 406 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 459 (A9) Unknown 100 100 35 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 436 (AE) Unknown 100 100 199 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 100 249108103208 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 14 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 91750 (F1) Unknown 253 253 6304 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2823	66.1% Good	Read 493 Write 353 Mixed 406 93% 417 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 66 4K Mixed 4.17 76% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 26.1 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 19.9 35% 65.4 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 86%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 238928088 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 456 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17138488 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4232 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 331 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 68 55 538902560 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 71 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2327 (C2) HDA temperature 32 45 81604378656 (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 78967268708339 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9587364856 (F2) Unknown 100 253 98544746556	87.3% Excellent	Read 138 Write 166 Mixed 122 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 5.31 4K Mixed 0.61 196% 2.22 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 108%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 232GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 138 136 4091 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5183 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20289 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4452 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 152 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5030 (C2) HDA temperature 111 95 32 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 75 75 18691 (F1) Unknown 200 200 20056110106 (F2) Unknown 200 200 26759497455	65.3% Good	Read 123 Write 104 Mixed 111 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.28 74% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GBH2X04F1AA2 4x8GB 78 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	50.1% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 16 MC Mixed 17.6 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 13.5 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 65.1 62% 65.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 99%

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Gaming 20%

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Desktop 64%

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Workstation 15%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P - $248

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	196x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	162x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	47x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	41x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	29x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	16x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	20x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	17x
F3 DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 41%, 3,080 samples	11x

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Total price: $392

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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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