Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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	29.9% 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	28.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20121022
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Aug 23 '17 at 20:18
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Socket M2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.5% Good	Memory 89.8 1-Core 76.8 2-Core 141 63% 103 Pts	4-Core 267 8-Core 471 44% 369 Pts	64-Core 476 30% 476 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7950-$290 33,820 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Gigabyte(1458 254C) 3GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1046.0 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	29.9% Poor	Lighting 38 Reflection 28.5 Parallax 50.1 31% 38.9 fps	MRender 26.8 Gravity 38.6 Splatting 35.4 28% 33.6 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 29.9% Great: 32%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 9877339 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 122861834496989 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1867 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 125 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9877339 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9877339 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9877339 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 20442 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16582 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16582 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12519	28.4% Poor	Read 132 Write 101 Mixed 108 25% 114 MB/s	4K Read 14 4K Write 42.1 4K Mixed 6.33 52% 20.8 MB/s	DQ Read 15.5 DQ Write 87.1 DQ Mixed 5.37 18% 36 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 28.4% Great: 61%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$22 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 53GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 118761480 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1918 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 70018100 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25596 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1739 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 57 588709923 (C2) HDA temperature 35 43 81604378659 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 19 118761480 (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 83300890736502 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1630917571 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2418446420	50.9% Above average	Read 88 Write 89.1 Mixed 82.1 65% 86.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.52 113% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 88%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 19GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 139 137 4016 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2340 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16151 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1055 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2309 (C2) HDA temperature 105 96 38 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	32.6% Below average	Read 66.8 Write 46.5 Mixed 52.8 42% 55.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.3 82% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 32.6% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	45.3% Average	MC Read 17.3 MC Write 15.6 MC Mixed 14.7 45% 15.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.4 SC Write 9.3 SC Mixed 12.8 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 61%

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Gaming 21%

Surfboard

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 - $300

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	109x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	62x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	46x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	23x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	23x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	14x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	94x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	93x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	61x

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Total price: $517

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 $184	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) $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