Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 53% Yacht	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 48.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	9.49% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	78.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 (all builds)
Memory	6.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130123
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 13 '17 at 20:38
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6100-$68 44,863 User benchmarks, average bench 54% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	48.4% Average	Memory 69.2 1-Core 70.4 2-Core 90.9 49% 76.8 Pts	4-Core 157 8-Core 190 22% 173 Pts	64-Core 204 13% 204 Pts
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-$112 69,673 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Gigabyte(1458 3553) 1GB CLim: 1110 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	9.49% Terrible	Lighting 10.6 Reflection 9.85 Parallax 12.3 9% 10.9 fps	MRender 14.2 Gravity 12.8 Splatting 13.7 11% 13.6 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9.49% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingdian S280-120GB 120GB 1,133 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 60GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0414B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st 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 100 100 420 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1014 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 140 (A3) Unknown 100 100 12 (A4) Unknown 100 100 31610 (A5) Unknown 100 100 57 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 16 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 5 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 125 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 82482 (F2) Unknown 100 100 93166 (F5) Unknown 100 100 63220	78.6% Very good	Read 509 Write 320 Mixed 382 89% 404 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 57.5 4K Mixed 29.5 105% 37.1 MB/s	DQ Read 130 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 18.9 47% 98.5 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 227GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 696 (03) Spinup time 100 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5194 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 228328917 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10459 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3731 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065692 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 57 640024614 (C2) HDA temperature 38 43 47244640294 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 24 696 (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 -10720238360387 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3022815809 (F2) Unknown 100 253 717237971	69.6% Good	Read 119 Write 124 Mixed 97.6 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.82 138% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-034.A 2x4GB 45 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	43.6% Average	MC Read 18.2 MC Write 12.9 MC Mixed 17.1 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 8.3 SC Write 8.1 SC Mixed 12 27% 9.47 GB/s	Latency 103 39% 103 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 43.6% Great: 59%

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

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	61x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	33x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	18x
GTX 650Nvidia $112Bench 8%, 69,673 samples	18x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	23x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	8x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	63x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	59x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	33x

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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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16