Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 37% Jet ski	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 30% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 70.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	53.5% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P (all builds)
Memory	9.6 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 10 '17 at 06:31
Run Duration	106 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Memory 89.6 1-Core 76.4 2-Core 152 64% 106 Pts	4-Core 281 8-Core 467 46% 374 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Device(0000 0000) 3GB CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2189 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (77^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	53.5% Above average	Lighting 60.1 Reflection 76.5 Parallax 67.2 49% 67.9 fps	MRender 78 Gravity 73.4 Splatting 76.4 62% 75.9 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 733GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 75 63 29463841 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 145 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 8603265402 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 360 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 145 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 66 454230043 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 145 (C2) HDA temperature 27 13 55834574875 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 29463841 (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 128874788684135 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2259708322 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3239494566	102% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 172 Mixed 135 122% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.28 89% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 449GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 118823143 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 157244682 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 37599 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 473 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 60 487915548 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 38654705692 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 23 118823143 (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 121564754384789 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1922813494 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1452219044	66.6% Good	Read 118 Write 114 Mixed 105 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.6 130% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston ACR16D3LU1NGG CT102464BD160 12GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 800, 800 MHz 4096, 8192 MB Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	43.7% Average	MC Read 16.6 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 14.4 44% 15.3 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 11.4 29% 10.3 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 50%

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Gaming 20%

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Desktop 64%

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Workstation 15%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P - $248

CPU
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	196x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	161x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	47x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	41x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	29x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	16x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	20x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	17x
F3 DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 41%, 3,080 samples	11x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $401

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