Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 70% Battle cruiser	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 64%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	89.8% 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	75.9% 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 (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170713
Uptime	8.9 Days
Run Date	Nov 19 '18 at 00:41
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320E-$87 33,199 User benchmarks, average bench 58% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	64% Good	Memory 88.3 1-Core 62.9 2-Core 109 56% 86.6 Pts	4-Core 216 8-Core 362 35% 289 Pts	64-Core 350 22% 350 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4992) CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Lighting 116 Reflection 116 Parallax 114 95% 115 fps	MRender 97.8 Gravity 104 Splatting 94 80% 98.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 520 Series 240GB-$139 12,595 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 160GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i SusWrite @10s intervals: 194 171 174 235 270 253 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	75.9% Very good	Read 369 Write 199 Mixed 248 SusWrite 216 58% 258 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 59.5 4K Mixed 33.3 120% 40.9 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 235 179% 244 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 95%
Crucial BX100 500GB-$40 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 295GB free Firmware: MU02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 321 383 388 379 380 373 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Read 450 Write 346 Mixed 313 SusWrite 371 83% 370 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 67.3 4K Mixed 36.4 122% 43.3 MB/s	DQ Read 234 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 195 154% 214 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 108%
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 180GB free Firmware: MU02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 239 256 255 255 254 253 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	70.5% Very good	Read 358 Write 251 Mixed 275 SusWrite 252 64% 284 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 54.2 4K Mixed 28.4 97% 34.6 MB/s	DQ Read 240 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 154 139% 210 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 91%
WD Blue 400GB (2007)-$42 1,778 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 336GB free Firmware: 12.01C02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 70 70 69 70 71 69 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	40.1% Average	Read 69.4 Write 67.9 Mixed 49.4 SusWrite 69.7 47% 64.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.9 172% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 43%
TRUSTED Mass Storage 2TB 93 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 1.5TB free, PID 4d10 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 18 12 3.8 3 2.6 1.8 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile)	13% Very poor	Read 20 Write 19.2 Mixed 15.2 SusWrite 6.9 20% 15.3 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 0 96% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 13% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16G-D3-2400-M 2x8GB 127 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	44.7% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 15.7 45% 15.7 GB/s	SC Read 9.9 SC Write 9.3 SC Mixed 12.1 30% 10.4 GB/s	Latency 69.2 58% 69.2 ns
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 54%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	154x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	134x
FX-8300AMD $168Bench 58%, 49,767 samples	28x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	76x
Radeon RX 560-BAMDBench 20%, 49,289 samples	29x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	23x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	13x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	17x
EWB4GB681PAE- 2x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 340 samples	15x
1866 CL10 Ser 2x8GBUnknownBench 46%, 679 samples	13x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $206

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