Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 69.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	109% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	51.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161107
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '17 at 06:51
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (40^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% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.5% Good	Memory 86.9 1-Core 74.8 2-Core 141 62% 101 Pts	4-Core 282 8-Core 472 46% 377 Pts	64-Core 474 29% 474 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 2471) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2902 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	109% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 185 Parallax 194 110% 171 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 182 Splatting 128 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 248GB free Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Read 1,223 Write 353 Mixed 481 149% 686 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 53.1 4K Mixed 17.4 98% 33.9 MB/s	DQ Read 195 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 12.2 46% 104 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 155%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5509353 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 47175920781228 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 257 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 96 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 33 50 68722753569 (C2) HDA temperature 33 50 68722753569 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5509353 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5509353 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5509353 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 64424509441 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3517 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2103 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2103 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2111 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2555925	51.5% Above average	Read 438 Write 123 Mixed 181 54% 247 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 63.1 4K Mixed 12.7 79% 31.6 MB/s	DQ Read 27.2 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 32.2 38% 63.5 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (32^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52% Above average	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 15.9 MC Mixed 18.6 54% 18.8 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.9 32% 11.3 GB/s	Latency 70.6 57% 70.6 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 88%

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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	431x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	86x
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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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 $178	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