Gigabyte GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 62.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	79.8% 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	74.5% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160128
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 06 '17 at 23:34
Run Duration	232 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (40^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% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	62.8% Good	Memory 78.1 1-Core 71.2 2-Core 143 58% 97.6 Pts	4-Core 257 8-Core 426 42% 342 Pts	64-Core 383 24% 383 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.8% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 109 Parallax 97.6 83% 103 fps	MRender 92 Gravity 94.2 Splatting 85.4 74% 90.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8719 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1631 (B1) Unknown 92 92 96 (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 44 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 815 (F1) Unknown 99 99 34911945444	74.5% Very good	Read 487 Write 313 Mixed 330 83% 377 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 40.4 4K Mixed 21.3 100% 31.9 MB/s	DQ Read 183 DQ Write 93.6 DQ Mixed 50.2 61% 109 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 118%
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 12,393 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 16GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1127 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 196 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2262 (AA) Unknown 100 100 56 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262155 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 62 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 1842 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 615	66.5% Good	Read 499 Write 311 Mixed 330 84% 380 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 40.5 4K Mixed 10.2 76% 26 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 92.1 DQ Mixed 44.8 57% 104 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 91%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 510GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 174 2166 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4903 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10854 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1912 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 770 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4132 (C2) HDA temperature 113 91 30 (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	90.2% Outstanding	Read 153 Write 161 Mixed 149 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.81 4K Mixed 0.28 106% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 109%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 750GB 775 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 391GB free, PID a00c Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	10.8% Very poor	Read 30.6 Write 9.01 Mixed 18.1 21% 19.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.05 51% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 10.8% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2x8GB 1,351 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	41.1% Average	MC Read 15.4 MC Write 13.7 MC Mixed 14.9 42% 14.7 GB/s	SC Read 8.9 SC Write 8.4 SC Mixed 11.1 27% 9.47 GB/s	Latency 84.1 48% 84.1 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 41.1% Great: 55%

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Gaming 31%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 25%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	41x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	17x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	13x

GPU
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	7x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	7x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	7x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	7x
Blue 250GBWD $81Bench 79%, 26,761 samples	3x
SD8SBBU120G1122 120GBSandiskBench 47%, 2,087 samples	3x

RAM
DDR3 2133 2OZ 2x4GBAdataBench 41%, 1,140 samples	6x
BLS4G3D1609DS 2x4GBCrucialBench 43%, 4,102 samples	4x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	3x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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