Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 35% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	56.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	28.6% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 15 '17 at 12:01
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320E-$87 33,199 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Socket M2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70% Very good	Memory 88 1-Core 76.2 2-Core 148 63% 104 Pts	4-Core 282 8-Core 476 46% 379 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290-$399 68,699 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Sapphire(174B E285) CLim: 1075 MHz, MLim: 1340 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.4.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	56.9% Above average	Lighting 70.7 Reflection 62.7 Parallax 81.8 58% 71.7 fps	MRender 62.5 Gravity 56.7 Splatting 79.4 56% 66.2 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 50%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD 64GB-$56 3,862 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.0.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6447 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3595 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 148 (AE) Unknown 100 100 403 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 493 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 685 (F1) Unknown 100 100 14004550108 (F2) Unknown 100 100 20444759903	28.6% Poor	Read 370 Write 54.9 Mixed 158 42% 194 MB/s	4K Read 16.1 4K Write 9.76 4K Mixed 4.33 35% 10.1 MB/s	DQ Read 15 DQ Write 8.11 DQ Mixed 2.39 4% 8.51 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 28.6% Great: 48%
Seagate ST3320418AS 320GB-$33 24,309 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 163GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222146501 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6534 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 4326166274 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7054 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3300 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 16 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 46 538312736 (C2) HDA temperature 32 54 60129542176 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 44 36 222146501 (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 -34875134428953 (F1) Unknown 100 253 453219023 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2408286448	46.4% Average	Read 70 Write 91.6 Mixed 88.3 63% 83.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.25 72% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 46.4% Great: 58%
WD VelociRaptor 300GB-$90 11,249 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 59GB free Firmware: 04.04V01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 198 197 3100 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5588 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11045 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4595 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 212 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5588 (C2) HDA temperature 114 92 33 (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 200 200 146 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	54.8% Above average	Read 95.1 Write 95.3 Mixed 78.5 67% 89.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.44 123% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.3% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 16 MC Mixed 17.7 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.5 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 13.4 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 69.6 58% 69.6 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 97%

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 - $300

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	109x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	62x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	46x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	23x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	23x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	14x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	94x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	93x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	61x

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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $517

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 $179	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