Asrock 970A-G/3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 38% Jet ski	Desktop 64% Destroyer	Workstation 30% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 57.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	62.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	54.2% 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock 970A-G/3.1 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160112
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 09 '17 at 06:11
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing as expected (44^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8120 25,690 User benchmarks, average bench 56% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	57.7% Above average	Memory 80 1-Core 57.6 2-Core 105 52% 80.9 Pts	4-Core 193 8-Core 314 31% 254 Pts	64-Core 316 20% 316 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 63%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	62.1% Good	Lighting 79.8 Reflection 79 Parallax 70.2 65% 76.3 fps	MRender 77.1 Gravity 70.1 Splatting 63 56% 70 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 238GB 1,346 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 195GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.10 Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	54.2% Above average	Read 347 Write 209 Mixed 223 57% 260 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 55.9 4K Mixed 12 79% 30.1 MB/s	DQ Read 108 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 56.7 56% 90.1 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 102%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 745GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3825 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 65 3370 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1525 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21290 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 830 (B5) Unknown 100 100 7117882 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 9 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 62 163209478174 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 13 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1591	59% Above average	Read 96.1 Write 109 Mixed 92.9 75% 99.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.28 89% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 72%
623 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 26GB free, PID 5500 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	9.93% Terrible	Read 31.1 Write 19.2 Mixed 21.3 29% 23.9 MB/s	4K Read 4.87 4K Write 0.03 4K Mixed 0.02 20% 1.64 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 9.93% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 1,207 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.3% Average	MC Read 16 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 14.4 43% 15 GB/s	SC Read 7.2 SC Write 7.6 SC Mixed 9.6 23% 8.13 GB/s	Latency 80.5 50% 80.5 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 82%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asrock 970A-G/3.1

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	112x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	80x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	17x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	9x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	4x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 1x8GBG.SKILLBench 27%, 2,515 samples	34x
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 9,944 samples	20x
1866 CL10 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 54%, 7,244 samples	9x

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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) $48	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16