Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 68.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	29.1% 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	72.7% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 11 '17 at 21:56
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	68.4% Good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 73.3 2-Core 132 62% 98.5 Pts	4-Core 254 8-Core 441 42% 347 Pts	64-Core 442 27% 442 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 950-$100 111,509 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Gigabyte(1458 36C5) CLim: 1468 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	29.1% Poor	Lighting 36.7 Reflection 34.2 Parallax 31.4 30% 34.1 fps	MRender 36.8 Gravity 32.4 Splatting 32.7 28% 33.9 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 29.1% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
GOODRAM 240GB 8,481 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 185GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 140 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 35 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 348 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 300	72.7% Very good	Read 488 Write 432 Mixed 473 104% 465 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 47.3 4K Mixed 13.8 78% 28 MB/s	DQ Read 23.9 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 55.3 53% 78.6 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 102%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 62GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2451 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 467 (B1) Unknown 98 98 38 (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 59 53 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 1 1 104533 (EB) Unknown 99 99 43 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6621338583	85.5% Excellent	Read 472 Write 368 Mixed 399 92% 413 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 61.8 4K Mixed 34.4 131% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 36.5 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 36.3 43% 70.6 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 115%
Samsung HD502IJ 500GB-$40 25,285 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 153GB free Firmware: 1AA01112 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 90 90 4040 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 1604 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 11849 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 499 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 1 1 1125 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 57 504692766 (C2) HDA temperature 69 55 588578847 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 36162 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1455 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 15 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	46.4% Average	Read 78.2 Write 83 Mixed 78.9 60% 80.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.43 114% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 46.4% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT102464BD160 2x8GB 720 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	49.3% Average	MC Read 20.3 MC Write 15.1 MC Mixed 17.5 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 11.1 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 12.3 30% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 50%

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	940x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	854x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	395x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	279x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	159x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	140x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	109x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	148x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	68x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 39%, 4,786 samples	61x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $184	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