Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 45% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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	59.9% 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	73.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170607
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 03 '18 at 22:42
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 92.4 1-Core 75.6 2-Core 141 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 268 8-Core 485 45% 377 Pts	64-Core 491 30% 491 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290X-$549 37,353 User benchmarks, average bench 51% Sapphire(174B E289) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1090 MHz, MLim: 1375 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.5.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	59.9% Above average	Lighting 75.7 Reflection 62.5 Parallax 86.9 62% 75.1 fps	MRender 59.9 Gravity 61.8 Splatting 79.8 56% 67.2 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 301GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1248 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 760 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 66 49 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 212 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11669484369	73.8% Very good	Read 484 Write 382 Mixed 402 94% 422 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 54.7 4K Mixed 18.1 100% 34.9 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 43.8 DQ Mixed 80.3 49% 51.7 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 134%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 201280840 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1197 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5785688 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1046 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 663 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295163912 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 63 538574879 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 170 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2683 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 68719476767 (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 51324859188905 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7256265810 (F2) Unknown 100 253 101488015092	104% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 171 Mixed 174 135% 180 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 0.56 4K Mixed 0.14 56% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 343GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4777080 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1693 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8094091 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1719 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1100 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 13 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 60 588840993 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 269 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4646 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 68719476769 (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 101279623809849 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10162450118 (F2) Unknown 100 253 300784120875	65.1% Good	Read 117 Write 110 Mixed 115 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 0.33 4K Mixed 0.12 46% 0.36 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 111%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	53.2% Above average	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 16.3 MC Mixed 18.5 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 9.9 SC Mixed 14.3 35% 12.1 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 79%

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Desktop 69%

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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	430x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	85x
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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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $588

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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