Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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	18% 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	32.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170607
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 13:34
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.8% Good	Memory 92 1-Core 70.4 2-Core 142 63% 101 Pts	4-Core 259 8-Core 415 41% 337 Pts	64-Core 430 27% 430 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Palit(1569 11C0) 2GB CLim: 1202 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	18% Very poor	Lighting 21.4 Reflection 21.3 Parallax 31.1 17% 24.6 fps	MRender 30 Gravity 18.4 Splatting 22.5 19% 23.7 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 18% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Corsair Force LS 60GB-$57 3,190 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 6GB free (System drive) Firmware: S9FM Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 847 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 698 (A2) Unknown 81 81 75 (AA) Unknown 100 100 167 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4391218 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 4 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1835 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2152	32.5% Below average	Read 362 Write 65.3 Mixed 105 38% 177 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 4.49 4K Mixed 3.72 51% 12.4 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 32.5% Great: 89%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 581GB free Firmware: 05.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 227 6083 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5522 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11056 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4811 (C0) Power-off retract count 196 196 3601 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1920 (C2) HDA temperature 118 99 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	48.9% Average	Read 82.6 Write 87.5 Mixed 83.4 64% 84.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.39 105% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 76%
WD WD5000AVDS-63U7B1 500GB 24,608 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 4GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 183 3733 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5536 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11419 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4947 (C0) Power-off retract count 196 196 3740 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1447326 (C2) HDA temperature 116 100 27 (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	57.3% Above average	Read 104 Write 95.6 Mixed 99 75% 99.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.42 109% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 52%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 119 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	47.4% Average	MC Read 20.3 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 15.4 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 12.2 30% 10.5 GB/s	Latency 64.1 62% 64.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 60%

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Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA - $299

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	431x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	13x

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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