Gigabyte GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 36% Jet ski	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 30% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 63.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	52.7% 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	63.8% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160128
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 24 '18 at 23:57
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	63.9% Good	Memory 88 1-Core 69 2-Core 128 60% 95.1 Pts	4-Core 217 8-Core 382 36% 299 Pts	64-Core 379 24% 379 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 1972) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1481 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	52.7% Above average	Lighting 66.4 Reflection 69.2 Parallax 61.8 54% 65.8 fps	MRender 71.6 Gravity 61.9 Splatting 53.1 50% 62.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 960GB-$59 4,389 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 460GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2785 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 131072 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13092 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7185 (AA) Unknown 100 100 24 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 86 (AE) Unknown 100 100 82 (B5) Unknown 100 100 682908516377 (B7) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 8814 (C2) HDA temperature 63 7 399432613925 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4294967295 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 24 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	70.1% Very good	Read 468 Write 409 Mixed 440 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 19.4 4K Write 47.2 4K Mixed 12.9 71% 26.5 MB/s	DQ Read 130 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 12.2 40% 88 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 101%
Adata XPG SX900 256GB-$164 6,726 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 99GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.7a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 10264980 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 6090263631285 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 872 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 192 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 46 42952687648 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10264980 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10264980 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10264980 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5659 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7148 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7148 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13043	63.8% Good	Read 476 Write 264 Mixed 321 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 57.9 4K Mixed 9.32 78% 30.2 MB/s	DQ Read 169 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 10.4 45% 102 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 90%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 250 242 9483 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4019 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7451 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1247 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 83 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 131 131 208574 (C2) HDA temperature 123 108 29 (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	60.7% Good	Read 113 Write 98 Mixed 95 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.2 71% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT41GU6BFR8C Samsung M378B1G73EB0- 16GB 800, 800 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	48.4% Average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 17.2 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 13.5 31% 10.9 GB/s	Latency 69.6 58% 69.6 ns

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Gaming 31%

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Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 25%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	41x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	17x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	13x

GPU
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	7x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	7x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	7x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	7x
Blue 250GBWD $90Bench 79%, 26,761 samples	3x
SD8SBBU120G1122 120GBSandiskBench 47%, 2,087 samples	3x

RAM
DDR3 2133 2OZ 2x4GBAdataBench 41%, 1,140 samples	6x
BLS4G3D1609DS 2x4GBCrucialBench 43%, 4,102 samples	4x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	3x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $305

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16