Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 51% Yacht	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 57%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	3.22% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	37.2% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '18 at 22:33
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T-$240 23,506 User benchmarks, average bench 57% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	57% Above average	Memory 79.8 1-Core 52 2-Core 101 50% 77.6 Pts	4-Core 188 8-Core 278 29% 233 Pts	64-Core 250 16% 250 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 720 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 4% MSI(1462 8C90) 2GB CLim: 797 MHz, MLim: 400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	3.22% Terrible	Lighting 3.8 Reflection 3.65 Parallax 3.62 3% 3.69 fps	MRender 3.95 Gravity 3.23 Splatting 5.13 4% 4.11 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.22% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Green 240GB (2016) 20,831 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 187GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z3311000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 361 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 186 (A5) Unknown 100 100 180397801594 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 27 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 55 193273528355 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 171799805992 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 287 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1141 (F1) Unknown 253 253 741 (F2) Unknown 253 253 932 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	37.2% Below average	Read 380 Write 156 Mixed 192 53% 243 MB/s	4K Read 10.9 4K Write 33.5 4K Mixed 2.94 38% 15.8 MB/s	DQ Read 21.3 DQ Write 65 DQ Mixed 2.14 14% 29.5 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 70%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 110GB free Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3381614 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 -119786637880623 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1953 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 74 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 23 45 51542556695 (C2) HDA temperature 23 45 51542556695 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3381614 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3381614 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3381614 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14057 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12383 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12383 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11871	53.2% Above average	Read 447 Write 120 Mixed 154 52% 240 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 61.8 4K Mixed 12.4 80% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 93 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 28.2 43% 79.5 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-052.A 2x8GB 126 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32% Below average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 6.6 MC Mixed 12.3 32% 11.1 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 5.6 SC Mixed 8.3 20% 6.83 GB/s	Latency 80.9 49% 80.9 ns
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 32% Great: 47%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	947x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	856x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	282x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	181x
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	62x

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Total price: $366

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $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) $23	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16