Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 35% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 71.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	62.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	9.7 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Nov 12 '17 at 04:20
Run Duration	255 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 (100^th percentile)	71.1% Very good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 76.4 2-Core 152 65% 106 Pts	4-Core 282 8-Core 468 46% 375 Pts	64-Core 471 29% 471 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 71.1% 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 (100^th percentile) - Disable monitor sync before benchmarking (77 fps cap detected)	62.3% Good	Lighting 76.3 Reflection 76.7 Parallax 66.9 62% 73.3 fps	MRender 78.1 Gravity 73.3 Splatting 77.3 62% 76.2 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62.3% 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 as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 128541534 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 151 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 8603643422 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 376 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 151 (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 74 66 437190682 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 151 (C2) HDA temperature 26 13 55834574874 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 128541534 (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 107271103185271 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2285558304 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3312722277	96.4% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 160 Mixed 133 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.3 94% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 96.4% 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 (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 124087220 (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 157253664 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 37611 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 479 (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 470941724 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 38654705692 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 23 124087220 (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 28729036281773 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1929094760 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1455274295	68.3% Good	Read 121 Write 117 Mixed 103 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.66 134% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 70%
ADATA USB Flash Drive 4GB 175 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 0GB free, PID c82a Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	3.42% Terrible	Read 14.9 Write 5.5 Mixed 7.35 10% 9.25 MB/s	4K Read 0.02 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.006 1% 0.02 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.42% Great: 7%

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 (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42% Average	MC Read 16.3 MC Write 14.3 MC Mixed 12.9 42% 14.5 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 11 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 42% 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 $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	196x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	162x
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 $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 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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Total price: $392

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16