Asrock 970A-G/3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	66.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	68.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asrock 970A-G/3.1 (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160112
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 17 '17 at 09:53
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Memory 92 1-Core 83.1 2-Core 163 68% 113 Pts	4-Core 331 8-Core 512 52% 421 Pts	64-Core 516 32% 516 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2125 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	66.5% Good	Lighting 83.4 Reflection 82.6 Parallax 79.7 68% 81.9 fps	MRender 77.1 Gravity 77 Splatting 78.5 64% 77.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 105GB free Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 2479 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 703 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3126864774956 (A6) Unknown 100 100 14 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 122 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 27 (AE) Unknown 100 100 310 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 46 231928234021 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2628545675876 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3293 (EA) Unknown 100 100 9208 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5566 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5453 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	58.5% Above average	Read 402 Write 349 Mixed 375 84% 375 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 60.4 4K Mixed 4.52 69% 28.5 MB/s	DQ Read 22.6 DQ Write 67 DQ Mixed 6.38 16% 32 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 78%
R580 240GB 240GB 148 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 44GB free (System drive) Firmware: Q0510A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th 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 1207 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 400 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 100 (A3) Unknown 100 100 13 (A4) Unknown 100 100 24494 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17 (A6) Unknown 100 100 11 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1500 (A9) Unknown 100 100 64 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 1363 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 220 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 27779 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 128229 (F2) Unknown 100 100 177761 (F5) Unknown 100 100 91190	68.9% Good	Read 473 Write 415 Mixed 382 94% 423 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 68 4K Mixed 6.02 80% 32.7 MB/s	DQ Read 26.3 DQ Write 77.3 DQ Mixed 6.69 18% 36.8 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 83%
Hitachi HDS721075CLA332 750GB-$190 3,719 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 698GB free Firmware: JP3OA3BF Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 54 1048600 (02) Throughput performance 133 100 104 (03) Spinup time 141 100 21493252352 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4594 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 130 40 35 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 8897 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3266 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 64 3619 (BD) vendor-specific 86 86 14 (BE) vendor-specific 74 59 421199898 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4695 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4695 (C2) HDA temperature 230 146 176094445594 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	70% Good	Read 124 Write 120 Mixed 120 92% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.42 100% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 20,667 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.1% Average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 16.5 49% 17 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 7.7 SC Mixed 12.4 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 64.1 62% 64.1 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 77%

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Gaming 20%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asrock 970A-G/3.1

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	112x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	80x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	17x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	9x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	4x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 1x8GBG.SKILLBench 27%, 2,515 samples	34x
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 9,944 samples	20x
1866 CL10 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 54%, 7,244 samples	9x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $265

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 $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16