Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 39% Jet ski	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 72.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	52.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	43.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	6.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130408
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '17 at 20:28
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.4% Very good	Memory 91.4 1-Core 72.9 2-Core 146 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 290 8-Core 442 45% 366 Pts	64-Core 442 27% 442 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290-$399 68,699 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Sapphire(174B E285) CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1300 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	52.9% Above average	Lighting 65.4 Reflection 58.8 Parallax 79.5 53% 67.9 fps	MRender 58.1 Gravity 52.6 Splatting 75.7 52% 62.1 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 50%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 79GB free (System drive) Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 40591540 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 26405458945312 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2398 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 236 (B1) Unknown 0 0 96 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 49 60132753436 (C2) HDA temperature 28 49 60132753436 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 40591540 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 40591540 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 40591540 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 18710 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11177 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11177 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9617	43.3% Average	Read 291 Write 101 Mixed 130 38% 174 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 60.1 4K Mixed 10.9 79% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 27.5 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 9.95 23% 46.3 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 43.3% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 82GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 89463872 (03) Spinup time 98 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4670 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 88120345 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9661 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2466 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295033268 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 59 571801630 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 59 59 83571 (C2) HDA temperature 30 41 55834574878 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 50 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -59206124169860 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10450532010 (F2) Unknown 100 253 66047748648	80.8% Excellent	Read 160 Write 122 Mixed 149 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 112%
WD WD25 00JS-58NCB1 250GB 17,984 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 14GB free Firmware: 10.02E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 182 5775 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11079 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 28876 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7938 (BE) vendor-specific 61 46 39 (C2) HDA temperature 110 96 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	25.8% Poor	Read 46.9 Write 42.6 Mixed 46.1 34% 45.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.25 74% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 25.8% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 1x8GB 3,795 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	32.4% Below average	MC Read 11.2 MC Write 10.5 MC Mixed 9.2 29% 10.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.7 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 9.9 27% 9.53 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 32.4% Great: 32%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	939x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	852x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	393x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	278x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	157x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	139x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	109x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	148x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	68x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 39%, 4,786 samples	61x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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