Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 69.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	113% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	46.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 01 '18 at 17:18
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.8% Good	Memory 92.7 1-Core 72.9 2-Core 142 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 254 8-Core 462 43% 358 Pts	64-Core 464 29% 464 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 376A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2862 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	113% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 182 Parallax 165 113% 162 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 184 Splatting 132 122% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SP580 120GB 3,644 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: V3.10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 94 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 115 (A1) Unknown 100 100 0 (A4) Unknown 100 100 1902 (A5) Unknown 100 100 5 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 4 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 293 (F2) Unknown 100 100 331 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0 (F4) Unknown 100 100 0 (F5) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 0 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0 (FB) Unknown 100 100 0 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0 (FD) Unknown 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	46.2% Average	Read 406 Write 200 Mixed 238 62% 282 MB/s	4K Read 18.9 4K Write 38.1 4K Mixed 1.79 51% 19.6 MB/s	DQ Read 80.5 DQ Write 92.2 DQ Mixed 2.49 25% 58.4 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 46.2% Great: 70%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 633GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 9 (03) Spinup time 129 126 6508 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2740 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5355 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2719 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 225 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10159 (C2) HDA temperature 114 93 33 (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	53.7% Above average	Read 101 Write 86.1 Mixed 82.5 67% 89.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.22 84% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2x8GB 2,237 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	51.7% Above average	MC Read 22.7 MC Write 14.2 MC Mixed 18.7 53% 18.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 13.3 31% 10.9 GB/s	Latency 62.6 64% 62.6 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 55%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P - $300

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	230x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	225x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	147x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	47x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	46x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	34x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	29x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	27x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	43x
BLS4G3D1609DS 2x4GBCrucialBench 43%, 4,102 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	20x

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Value: 41% - Average

Total price: $688

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16