Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


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 72.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	20% 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	92.3% 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	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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P (all builds)
Memory	14.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 27 '16 at 19:41
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.4% Very good	Memory 93.4 1-Core 78.7 2-Core 156 67% 109 Pts	4-Core 279 8-Core 464 45% 371 Pts	64-Core 465 29% 465 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 750-Ti-$92 309,423 User benchmarks, average bench 17% Asus(1043 84BB) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1450 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 375.95 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	20% Poor	Lighting 24.6 Reflection 19.9 Parallax 23.4 20% 22.6 fps	MRender 29.4 Gravity 25.9 Splatting 20 20% 25.1 fps
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 20% Great: 19%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4020 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 578 (B1) Unknown 98 98 42 (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 66 52 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 100 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18826676193	92.3% Outstanding	Read 492 Write 384 Mixed 402 95% 426 MB/s	4K Read 36.4 4K Write 56 4K Mixed 36.6 132% 43 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 167 DQ Mixed 86.2 93% 156 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 124%
Seagate Backup+ BL 1TB 489 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 527GB free Firmware: 0412 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	55.5% Above average	Read 91 Write 102 Mixed 85.4 70% 92.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.32 91% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 58%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$29 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 188GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 170 2316 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1157 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8330 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 798 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 121 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1048 (C2) HDA temperature 118 97 25 (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	74.1% Very good	Read 106 Write 152 Mixed 88.5 86% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.29 87% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 10,715 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	53.1% Above average	MC Read 23 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 18.4 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 12.8 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 61.3 65% 61.3 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 54%

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

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Gaming 20%

Surfboard

Desktop 64%

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Workstation 15%

Surfboard

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 $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 $163	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) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16