Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 54% Yacht	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 49.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	9.85% 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	43.1% 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.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	4.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 04 '17 at 17:22
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon II X2 255 3,508 User benchmarks, average bench 42% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	49.7% Average	Memory 82.7 1-Core 48.8 2-Core 92.1 49% 74.5 Pts	4-Core 102 8-Core 91.3 13% 96.5 Pts	64-Core 77.6 5% 77.6 Pts
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 49%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 250E 10,952 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Sapphire(174B A001) 2GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1100 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.9.3 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	9.85% Terrible	Lighting 12.3 Reflection 14.2 Parallax 16.9 10% 14.5 fps	MRender 10 Gravity 11.5 Splatting 12.8 10% 11.4 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.85% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 162GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd 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 2165 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1008 (64) Unknown 100 100 3196960 (65) Unknown 100 100 564096 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 67 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 97 97 969 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1335 (B7) Unknown 99 99 13 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 34 100 219044708386 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5720 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2997 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4717 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5881 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	43.1% Average	Read 469 Write 160 Mixed 141 56% 257 MB/s	4K Read 11.3 4K Write 25.1 4K Mixed 4.56 36% 13.6 MB/s	DQ Read 130 DQ Write 63.2 DQ Mixed 25.2 38% 72.9 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 88%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 270GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 174 1966 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1988 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1995 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 968 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1945 (C2) HDA temperature 105 95 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	63.1% Good	Read 115 Write 105 Mixed 103 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.27 97% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston ACR256X64D3S1 ACR256X64D3S1 8GB 667, 667, 667, 667 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	30.6% Below average	MC Read 12 MC Write 7 MC Mixed 12.2 30% 10.4 GB/s	SC Read 6.8 SC Write 5.8 SC Mixed 7.9 20% 6.83 GB/s	Latency 75.6 53% 75.6 ns

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	157x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	15x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	12x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2x8GBCorsairBench 46%, 237 samples	9x

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Total price: $217

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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