Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 67.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	25.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	20.7 GB free of 24 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 05 '18 at 02:14
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th 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% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	67.8% Good	Memory 84 1-Core 73.1 2-Core 143 61% 99.9 Pts	4-Core 279 8-Core 436 44% 358 Pts	64-Core 435 27% 435 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3282) CLim: 2138 MHz, MLim: 2508 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.59 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	25.6% Poor	Lighting 7.63 Reflection 79.3 Parallax 69.9 6% 52.3 fps	MRender 84.5 Gravity 73.1 Splatting 75.7 63% 77.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 25.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 144GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1220 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 124 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1989816605	85.6% Excellent	Read 485 Write 379 Mixed 399 94% 421 MB/s	4K Read 35.9 4K Write 50.4 4K Mixed 31.8 122% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 169 DQ Write 92.3 DQ Mixed 58.7 63% 107 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 134%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 87216120 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 276 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 61181771 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1916 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 295 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 64 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1085 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 81604378652 (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 -97379793500320 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11793271020 (F2) Unknown 100 253 80171377870	108% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 181 Mixed 169 136% 182 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.22 80% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung 2133 CL11 Ser Adata DDR3 2133 2133 CL11 Ser Adata DDR3 2133 24GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 800, 667, 800, 667 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	45.1% Average	MC Read 17.5 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 15.6 46% 16 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 8.4 SC Mixed 12.5 30% 10.4 GB/s	Latency 73.4 54% 73.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 45%

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	940x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	855x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	395x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	279x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	159x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	140x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	109x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	148x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	68x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 39%, 4,786 samples	61x

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Total price: $366

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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