Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 68.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	18.9% 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	34.6% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20130806
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 20:56
Run Duration	271 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th 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 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.7% Good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 72.6 2-Core 139 63% 101 Pts	4-Core 246 8-Core 438 41% 342 Pts	64-Core 436 27% 436 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650 Ti Boost-$140 15,701 User benchmarks, average bench 17% EVGA(3842 3658) 2GB CLim: 1293 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	18.9% Very poor	Lighting 21.5 Reflection 20.3 Parallax 27.8 18% 23.2 fps	MRender 29.3 Gravity 25.8 Splatting 24.9 22% 26.7 fps
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 18.9% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT08B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6547 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4650 (B1) Unknown 53 53 563 (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 59 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 330 (F1) Unknown 99 99 54724084890	34.6% Below average	Read 300 Write 127 Mixed 123 40% 184 MB/s	4K Read 17 4K Write 15.9 4K Mixed 7.69 44% 13.5 MB/s	DQ Read 23.2 DQ Write 67.6 DQ Mixed 9.5 18% 33.4 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 34.6% Great: 73%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 171 4241 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7799 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8486 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4630 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 158 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 140 140 182325 (C2) HDA temperature 116 107 31 (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	79.8% Very good	Read 134 Write 144 Mixed 88.6 91% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.27 108% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 84%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 980 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 931GB free, PID 0101 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 14% Great: 44%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 2TB 3,591 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 101GB free, PID b207 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	15.5% Very poor	Read 27.8 Write 27.9 Mixed 18.5 31% 24.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.16 65% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 15.5% Great: 51%

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 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	48.6% Average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 15 MC Mixed 17.1 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 7.6 SC Mixed 13.2 28% 9.77 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 48.6% Great: 55%

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Gaming 20%

Surfboard

Desktop 64%

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Workstation 15%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P - $248

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	196x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	162x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	47x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	41x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	29x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	16x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	20x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	17x
F3 DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 41%, 3,080 samples	11x

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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