Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


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 71.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	61.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	81.7% 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 15 '18 at 06:39
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	5%

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 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	Memory 90.7 1-Core 76.7 2-Core 154 65% 107 Pts	4-Core 286 8-Core 483 47% 384 Pts	64-Core 484 30% 484 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Sapphire(174B E324) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1600 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.2.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Lighting 77.1 Reflection 64.9 Parallax 90.6 63% 77.5 fps	MRender 64.3 Gravity 63.9 Splatting 81.2 58% 69.8 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7334 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3250 (B1) Unknown 95 95 155 (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 60 34 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 936 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26334104545	81.7% Excellent	Read 511 Write 463 Mixed 469 107% 481 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 20.8 103% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 31.3 DQ Write 71.9 DQ Mixed 20.7 25% 41.3 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 116%
Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 750GB-$52 41,501 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 375GB free Firmware: JE4OA50A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 168 100 68719476737 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 5783 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 10987 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3183 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 167504969728 (BC) Unknown 100 98 786532 (BE) vendor-specific 64 37 589758500 (BF) G-sense error rate 25 25 19224 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 13500622 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 124767 (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 100 100 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	46.9% Average	Read 84.2 Write 79.1 Mixed 76.6 60% 80 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.18 63% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 53%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1866C10D3/ KHX1600C10D3/ KHX1866C10D3/ KHX1600C10D3/ 16GB 78 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 933, 800, 933, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	47.9% Average	MC Read 19.7 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 17.2 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 11 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 50%

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

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Desktop 64%

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Workstation 15%

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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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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $392

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