Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 33% Sail boat	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 70.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	42.3% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	84% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130408
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 06:42
Run Duration	317 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.3% Very good	Memory 90.6 1-Core 78.5 2-Core 157 66% 109 Pts	4-Core 276 8-Core 365 41% 321 Pts	64-Core 368 23% 368 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Asus(1043 04FD) ≥ 4GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	42.3% Average	Lighting 50.1 Reflection 66.3 Parallax 65.9 41% 60.7 fps	MRender 66.8 Gravity 44.1 Splatting 55 45% 55.3 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSC2BA200G3 200GB 216 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 129GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5DV12270 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 100 100 4668 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1128 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 61 (AF) Unknown 100 100 4296147585 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 75 420544537 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 61 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 34 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 230649 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 102 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 44 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 275154 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 230649 (F2) Unknown 100 100 193120	84% Excellent	Read 436 Write 366 Mixed 405 90% 402 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 63.7 4K Mixed 32.2 122% 42.2 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 78.5 80% 130 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 97%
Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB-$76 24,219 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 47GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3552530 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 10952166613703 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3596 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 2018 (B1) Unknown 0 0 84 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 44 73017327646 (C2) HDA temperature 30 44 73017327646 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3552530 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3552530 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3552530 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 84 84 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21469 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14721 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14721 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13510	55.5% Above average	Read 452 Write 78.4 Mixed 120 47% 217 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 66.3 4K Mixed 16.8 99% 37 MB/s	DQ Read 96.3 DQ Write 73.2 DQ Mixed 31.1 38% 66.9 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 69%
WD Purple 2TB (2014)-$67 19,126 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 848GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 4250 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1255 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5749 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1255 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1066 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 269 (C2) HDA temperature 116 105 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	67.8% Good	Read 118 Write 119 Mixed 105 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.21 75% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 86%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 370GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 143 143 66 (03) Spinup time 126 126 12896895157 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 534 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 118 118 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1219 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 449 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 556 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 556 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 193275035680 (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	76.8% Very good	Read 136 Write 132 Mixed 143 104% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.2 78% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 107%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 252GB free Firmware: 17.01H17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 138 3891 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1550 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4550 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1548 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 320 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6506 (C2) HDA temperature 111 87 32 (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	56.5% Above average	Read 98 Write 99 Mixed 95.1 73% 97.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.51 105% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 69%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 8GB 30,139 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 3GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	11.3% Very poor	Read 22.1 Write 8.24 Mixed 12.2 16% 14.2 MB/s	4K Read 4.31 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 1.25 117% 2.43 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 11.3% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata Kingston 9905402-544.A DDR3 1600 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 667, 800, 667, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	47% Average	MC Read 18.7 MC Write 14.1 MC Mixed 16.8 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 12.8 31% 11 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 47%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

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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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Value: 80% - Very good

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