Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 70.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	89.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	90.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P (all builds)
Memory	28.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 20 '16 at 13:38
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Memory 90.8 1-Core 72.4 2-Core 143 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 276 8-Core 433 44% 354 Pts	64-Core 432 27% 432 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7290 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 115 Parallax 98.4 92% 109 fps	MRender 98.4 Gravity 104 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 165GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 916 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 344 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (B3) Unknown 100 100 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 70 66 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 18 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5183509720	90.4% Outstanding	Read 493 Write 387 Mixed 405 95% 429 MB/s	4K Read 35.8 4K Write 52 4K Mixed 37 129% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 192 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 71.3 77% 130 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 94084192 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6012 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10759780 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5037 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2363 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 77 57 292444962839 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29819 (C2) HDA temperature 23 43 -140737488355305 (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 -33324651248917 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17068531710 (F2) Unknown 100 253 11892205639	102% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 170 Mixed 108 115% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.23 83% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 563GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 236617232 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6032 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 4311478362 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5984 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2856 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 76 56 73435119640 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 68 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 48062 (C2) HDA temperature 24 44 -140737488355304 (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 65730179499945 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10792145721 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23276871674	71.1% Very good	Read 144 Write 104 Mixed 104 88% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.25 69% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 1,520 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 933 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (59^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.7% Average	MC Read 19.7 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 17.5 50% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.4 SC Write 8.2 SC Mixed 13.4 30% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 66.1 61% 66.1 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 110%

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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 $129Bench 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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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $392

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