Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding HDD
Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 62.6%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	65.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	259% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 9 months ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161107
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 19 '17 at 17:12
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
AMD FX-8300-$98 11,247 User benchmarks, average bench 50% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	62.6% Good	SC Int 88.8 SC Float 78.1 SC Mixed 82.5 66% 83.1 Pts	QC Int 301 QC Float 272 QC Mixed 306 66% 293 Pts	MC Int 578 MC Float 491 MC Mixed 562 82% 543 Pts
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 580-$328 28,584 User benchmarks, average bench 69% Gigabyte(1458 22F1) CLim: 1370 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.5.2 Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	65.9% Good	Lighting 190 Reflection 177 Parallax 270 68% 212 fps	MRender 138 Gravity 182 Splatting 128 65% 150 fps
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 75%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$165 49,014 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 112GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4837 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2444 (B1) Unknown 95 95 50 (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 65 53 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1235 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15780704383	70.7% Very good	Read 471 Write 316 Mixed 328 82% 372 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 53.1 4K Mixed 17.2 100% 34.5 MB/s	DQ Read 29.8 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 14.8 28% 52.6 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 93%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 128GB-$116 1,384 User benchmarks, average bench 162% 45GB free Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1637 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 840 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 28 (AE) Unknown 99 99 188 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 477 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 43 31 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 3584 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1715 (F2) Unknown 99 99 2597	259% Outstanding	Read 2,862 Write 62.7 Mixed 122 212% 1,015 MB/s	4K Read 348 4K Write 3.76 4K Mixed 3.71 534% 118 MB/s
Poor: 118% ↑ This bench: 259% Great: 184%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1866C10D3/4G KHX1866C10D3/4G Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	54.2% Above average	MC Read 22.8 MC Write 16.1 MC Mixed 19.3 55% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 11.7 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 14.9 34% 11.8 GB/s	Latency 61.1 65% 61.1 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 53%

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

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 55%

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Workstation 45%

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Motherboard: Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA - $143

CPU
FX-8350AMD $109Bench 57%, 108,300 samples	2,537x
FX-6300AMD $78Bench 48%, 83,748 samples	736x
FX-8370AMD $168Bench 57%, 10,011 samples	735x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $290Bench 71%, 231,755 samples	624x
RX 480AMD $350Bench 64%, 84,536 samples	592x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $155Bench 39%, 131,721 samples	463x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $80Bench 94%, 270,334 samples	386x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 96%, 197,216 samples	279x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $65Bench 48%, 119,806 samples	167x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 57%, 31,182 samples	367x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 50%, 14,868 samples	130x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 18,584 samples	107x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $622

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $80
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $170	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $290	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
Intel Core i7-7700K $286	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $190	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $931	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $204	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12