Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 69.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	84.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	48.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141007
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 06 '18 at 21:51
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	69.3% Good	Memory 93.6 1-Core 78.6 2-Core 141 65% 104 Pts	4-Core 245 8-Core 443 41% 344 Pts	64-Core 441 27% 441 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 112 Parallax 104 88% 108 fps	MRender 93 Gravity 92.2 Splatting 95.2 77% 93.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 520 Series 120GB-$199 19,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 11GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 75952202565819 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1404 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1403 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 106 106 13428078 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1403 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 184105 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 38 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 184105 (F2) Unknown 100 100 116649 (F9) Unknown 100 100 7218	48.8% Average	Read 311 Write 151 Mixed 177 47% 213 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 11.5 87% 33.3 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 70.4 DQ Mixed 11.4 20% 37.6 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 88%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 162 142 8891 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3757 (05) Reallocated sector count 197 197 48 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23044 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2067 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 332 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 123 123 232579 (C2) HDA temperature 118 104 34 (C4) Reallocation count 196 196 4 (C5) Current pending sector count 66 66 65496 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 32	65.6% Good	Read 120 Write 108 Mixed 107 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.2 90% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 83%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 563GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 1 1 39923 (03) Spinup time 76 76 8080 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 6885 (05) Reallocated sector count 88 88 515 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5230 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1917 (0D) Soft read error rate 1 1 39921 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 58837 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 68 421068825 (C2) HDA temperature 75 68 421068825 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 215400 (C4) Reallocation count 88 88 515 (C5) Current pending sector count 92 87 347 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	47.4% Average	Read 84 Write 81.1 Mixed 70.2 59% 78.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.37 89% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4x4GB 1,012 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	51.1% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 18 52% 18 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 9.2 SC Mixed 14.2 33% 11.7 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 99%

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	61x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	33x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	18x
GTX 650Nvidia $112Bench 8%, 69,673 samples	18x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	23x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	8x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	63x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	59x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	33x

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Total price: $366

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