Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 40% Jet ski


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 70.5%, this CPU's 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	85.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 29 '17 at 12:20
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	1%

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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 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.5% Very good	Memory 91.2 1-Core 73.3 2-Core 143 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 270 8-Core 445 44% 358 Pts	64-Core 446 28% 446 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.9% Good	Lighting 83.8 Reflection 80.6 Parallax 76.8 68% 80.4 fps	MRender 73.6 Gravity 75.7 Splatting 74.7 61% 74.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 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 98 98 6613 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5151 (B1) Unknown 94 94 124 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 47 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 723 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25198599835	85.9% Excellent	Read 508 Write 393 Mixed 414 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 52.6 4K Mixed 30.6 122% 39.7 MB/s	DQ Read 92.2 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 47.3 52% 85.1 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 115%
WD WD2500KS-00MJB0 250GB-$78 8,440 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 91GB free Firmware: 02.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 14 (03) Spinup time 204 181 4800 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11708 (05) Reallocated sector count 195 195 34 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27074 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 89 89 11072 (BE) vendor-specific 67 37 33 (C2) HDA temperature 117 87 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 353 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	34.3% Below average	Read 59.6 Write 59.3 Mixed 58.9 45% 59.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.48 125% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 34.3% Great: 35%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 36GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 86 9794550 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 9095891092 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 37473 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2012 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 2299 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 50 471531548 (C2) HDA temperature 28 50 -8589934564 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 20 9794550 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	49.2% Average	Read 76.5 Write 94.9 Mixed 80.7 63% 84 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.29 71% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 1,867 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	49.2% Average	MC Read 20.1 MC Write 15.1 MC Mixed 17.4 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 9 SC Mixed 12.6 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 100%

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

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P - $300

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	229x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	224x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	146x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	47x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	46x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	34x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	29x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	27x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	43x
BLS4G3D1609DS 2x4GBCrucialBench 43%, 4,102 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	20x

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Value: 39% - Below average

Total price: $645

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	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