Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 72.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	62.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	516% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161107
Uptime	4.3 Days
Run Date	May 14 '17 at 11:10
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 73.8 2-Core 148 64% 105 Pts	4-Core 285 8-Core 441 45% 363 Pts	64-Core 443 27% 443 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.2.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	62.4% Good	Lighting 80.7 Reflection 57.7 Parallax 98.6 66% 79 fps	MRender 52.8 Gravity 75.1 Splatting 73.9 56% 67.3 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Ultimate SU800 256GB-$54 40,725 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 238GB free Firmware: Q0125A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 452 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 155 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 58 (A3) Unknown 100 100 7 (A4) Unknown 100 100 2003 (A5) Unknown 100 100 42 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 3 (94) Unknown 100 100 2166 (95) Unknown 100 100 104 (96) Unknown 100 100 2 (97) Unknown 100 100 63 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1500 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 22 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 37 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 12344 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 12344 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9176 (F5) Unknown 100 100 32048	67.5% Good	Read 464 Write 305 Mixed 337 82% 369 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 36.9 4K Mixed 21.1 78% 26.1 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 90.7 DQ Mixed 54.6 65% 116 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 118%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 179GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	516% Outstanding	Read 3,780 Write 3,745 Mixed 3,824 846% 3,783 MB/s	4K Read 153 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 97.9 421% 124 MB/s	DQ Read 240 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 95.2 103% 174 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 516% Great: 236%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 628GB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 126 126 25789464876 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1263 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3852 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1228 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1263 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1263 (C2) HDA temperature 230 230 163209674778 (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 200 200 0	68.6% Good	Read 107 Write 132 Mixed 137 95% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.21 78% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 376GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 112657344 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1693 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 8598727040 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3952 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 787 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 76 53 404160536 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 143 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7194 (C2) HDA temperature 24 47 47244640280 (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 101223789234081 (F1) Unknown 100 253 30932002655 (F2) Unknown 100 253 38146933044	74.9% Very good	Read 130 Write 131 Mixed 119 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.23 90% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.3% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 17.6 51% 18 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 13.2 31% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 79%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA - $299

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	430x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	13x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $588

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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