Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Destroyer	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 72.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	88.4% 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	73.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

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

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jun 30 '16 at 09:20
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 78.8 2-Core 154 65% 108 Pts	4-Core 297 8-Core 463 47% 380 Pts	64-Core 463 29% 463 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3232) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 114 Parallax 122 92% 116 fps	MRender 99.2 Gravity 104 Splatting 93.7 81% 99.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 349GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 99 148 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 55 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 49 49 51 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1063372930	73.3% Very good	Read 498 Write 378 Mixed 400 94% 425 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 43.9 4K Mixed 18.2 96% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 34.5 DQ Write 49.9 DQ Mixed 27.1 25% 37.2 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 134%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 531GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 169 2316 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 733 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2250 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 713 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 127 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 609 (C2) HDA temperature 110 105 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	85.1% Excellent	Read 142 Write 154 Mixed 128 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.3 113% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 2133 C11 2x4GB 1,027 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	49.7% Average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 17.3 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.7 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 56%

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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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Desktop 64%

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Workstation 15%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P - $248

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	196x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	162x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	48x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	41x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	29x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	16x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	20x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	17x
F3 DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 41%, 3,080 samples	11x

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Total price: $435

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4060 $288	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16