Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 73.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	104% 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	150% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170607
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 01 '19 at 19:54
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	LTU-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (49^th 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% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.1% Very good	Memory 95.7 1-Core 76.1 2-Core 142 65% 105 Pts	4-Core 274 8-Core 473 45% 374 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 164 Parallax 189 101% 159 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 177 Splatting 124 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$69 12,601 User benchmarks, average bench 205% 199GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 350 436 494 485 475 484 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	150% Outstanding	Read 989 Write 708 Mixed 624 SusWrite 454 155% 694 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 56.7 197% 68.2 MB/s	DQ Read 571 DQ Write 395 DQ Mixed 503 370% 490 MB/s
Poor: 136% ↑ This bench: 150% Great: 262%
WDC WDS100T2B0A 1TB 10,504 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 714GB free Firmware: X61190WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 261 313 332 328 322 327 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	97.8% Outstanding	Read 440 Write 386 Mixed 300 SusWrite 314 81% 360 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 84.4 4K Mixed 46.1 158% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 248 DQ Mixed 252 192% 261 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 121%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 170 169 170 170 171 171 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 196 Write 177 Mixed 88 SusWrite 170 115% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.8 148% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	60.3% Good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 16.6 MC Mixed 21.8 62% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 9.6 SC Mixed 17.1 38% 13.3 GB/s	Latency 55 73% 55 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 79%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA - $299

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	430x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	13x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $588

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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