Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 62% Destroyer	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	1.74% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	81% 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.

Very high background CPU (45%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161107
Uptime	12.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 15 '18 at 14:53
Run Duration	295 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	45%

PC Performing as expected (46^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% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 89.6 1-Core 71.8 2-Core 144 62% 102 Pts	4-Core 284 8-Core 436 44% 360 Pts	64-Core 430 27% 430 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 610 62,458 User benchmarks, average bench 2% EVGA(3842 2619) 2GB CLim: 810 MHz, MLim: 250 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	1.74% Terrible	Lighting 2.2 Reflection 2.46 Parallax 1.75 2% 2.14 fps	MRender 2.24 Gravity 2.23 Splatting 1.7 2% 2.06 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 1.74% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 98GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1574 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 264 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 60 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4299167322	81% Excellent	Read 477 Write 381 Mixed 396 93% 418 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 49.7 4K Mixed 28.1 114% 37.3 MB/s	DQ Read 35 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 75.6 63% 86 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 160619448 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4107 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 54 51 30066664827 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12862 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 519 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 62 403898392 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 58 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14983 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 55834574872 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 73353746449868 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3410834731 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3960897133	97.9% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 157 Mixed 150 123% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.28 84% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 97.9% Great: 113%
SABRENT 750GB 356 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 55GB free Firmware: 4101 Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	18.5% Very poor	Read 32.9 Write 31 Mixed 31.3 24% 31.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.5 107% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 18.5% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.9% Above average	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 18.5 54% 18.7 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 8.7 SC Mixed 13.9 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 51.9% Great: 72%

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

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Workstation 19%

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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 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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