Biostar TA970

Performance Results


Gaming 26% Raft	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	33.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	65.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Biostar TA970 (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1776 x 1000 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20140312
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Jul 14 '17 at 12:07
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	66.6% Good	Memory 88.3 1-Core 75.1 2-Core 140 62% 101 Pts	4-Core 244 8-Core 440 41% 342 Pts	64-Core 440 27% 440 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 8970 Graphics 29 User benchmarks, average bench 31% AMD(1002 4000) 3GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1001.0 Performing below potential (52^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	33.2% Below average	Lighting 42.5 Reflection 29.3 Parallax 61.5 35% 44.4 fps	MRender 28.1 Gravity 45.5 Splatting 37 30% 36.9 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 33.2% Great: 35%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM50.8 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 56 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 78 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 97 97 89 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262159 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 473	65.5% Good	Read 371 Write 339 Mixed 361 80% 357 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 72.7 4K Mixed 8.68 80% 33.9 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 15.9 51% 113 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 868GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 125599000 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4142 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 18 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 9176616645 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15081 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4335 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 66 66 34 (BC) Unknown 100 98 11 (BD) vendor-specific 87 87 13 (BE) vendor-specific 74 53 437714970 (C2) HDA temperature 26 47 25769803802 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 26 125599000 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 6 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 2942052623422 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1982355516 (F2) Unknown 100 253 858066769	63.3% Good	Read 115 Write 106 Mixed 99 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.39 98% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16GB 70,565 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 667, 667, 667, 667 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	45.8% Average	MC Read 17.5 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 15.5 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 13.2 30% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 69.2 58% 69.2 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 54%

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Gaming 21%

Surfboard

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 17%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Biostar TA970 - $125

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	47x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	22x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	14x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	6x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	6x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	8x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	5x
870 EVO 500GBSamsung $60Bench 104%, 60,851 samples	4x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	79x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	31x
32GBUnknownBench 53%, 5,781 samples	22x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $351

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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