Asrock 970M Pro3

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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 71.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	71.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	83.6% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock 970M Pro3 (all builds)
Memory	27.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160617
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 18 '18 at 19:16
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing as expected (41^st 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	Memory 90.1 1-Core 77.8 2-Core 153 65% 107 Pts	4-Core 286 8-Core 479 47% 382 Pts	64-Core 488 30% 488 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	71.9% Very good	Lighting 70.7 Reflection 119 Parallax 148 58% 113 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 139 Splatting 112 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 44GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17706 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4431 (B1) Unknown 95 95 58 (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 62 53 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 290 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30926570711	83.6% Excellent	Read 497 Write 326 Mixed 341 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 39.8 4K Write 48.7 4K Mixed 24.9 118% 37.8 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 137 DQ Mixed 71 86% 155 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 16338616 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 104 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 41566 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 100 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 46 (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 70 67 521601054 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 187 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 90194313246 (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 16239271346199 (F1) Unknown 100 253 388747164 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10224201	95.4% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 149 Mixed 150 121% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 0.59 4K Mixed 0.27 64% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 114%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$50 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 199GB free Firmware: 15.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 174 4091 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9893 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29498 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5784 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 405 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9487 (C2) HDA temperature 114 102 33 (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	46.4% Average	Read 95.7 Write 65.6 Mixed 86.6 62% 82.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.46 109% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 46.4% Great: 74%
Seagate ST500LM012 HN-M500MBB 500GB 47,588 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 61GB free Firmware: 2BA3 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 5 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3580 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5439 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3679 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 74 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2681 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 10 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 50 227634446366 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 14184 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 74 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 34512	38.8% Below average	Read 73.6 Write 61.6 Mixed 70.5 52% 68.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.37 80% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 12,722 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.2% Average	MC Read 19 MC Write 15.5 MC Mixed 17.2 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.8 SC Write 8.7 SC Mixed 12.7 30% 10.4 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 80%

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Asrock 970M Pro3

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	289x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	228x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	70x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	92x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	51x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	47x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	27x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
TEAMGROUP-UD3-1600 2x8GBUnknownBench 52%, 6,864 samples	35x
NMUD380D81-1600C 1x8GBUnknownBench 28%, 485 samples	26x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	24x

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Total price: $217

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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