Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 73.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	128% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	76.7% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (87%). 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-D3P (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	4.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '18 at 01:02
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	87%

PC Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 4.75 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.2% Very good	Memory 94 1-Core 82.1 2-Core 143 66% 106 Pts	4-Core 289 8-Core 386 43% 338 Pts	64-Core 386 24% 386 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 2471) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 416.94 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	128% Outstanding	Lighting 175 Reflection 194 Parallax 178 142% 182 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 185 Splatting 129 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
AMD Radeon R3 120GB 3,248 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 84GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0422C SusWrite @10s intervals: 288 56 51 57 55 55 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	76.7% Very good	Read 476 Write 407 Mixed 378 SusWrite 93.8 76% 339 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 77.3 4K Mixed 38.8 132% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 258 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 213 168% 233 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 87%
Adata Ultimate SU800 128GB-$30 32,167 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 18GB free Firmware: Q0125A Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 499 Write 412 Mixed 394 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 80.1 4K Mixed 41.7 142% 50.7 MB/s	DQ Read 130 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 162 127% 173 MB/s
Poor: 49% Great: 107%
Hitachi HDS5C3030BLE630 3TB 1,336 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2TB free Firmware: MZ6OAAB0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 127 126 128 128 130 128 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Read 161 Write 163 Mixed 35.6 SusWrite 128 88% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.5 126% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1x8GB 1,164 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	35% Below average	MC Read 12.2 MC Write 11.1 MC Mixed 10.2 32% 11.2 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 11 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 59.7 67% 59.7 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 35% Great: 32%

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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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Gaming 20%

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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 $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	196x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	161x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	47x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	41x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	29x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 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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Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $391

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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