Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 56% Gunboat	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


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 an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 56.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	9.54% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	74.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	29.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160516
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 15 '16 at 22:47
Run Duration	338 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

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-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	56.9% Above average	Memory 74.9 1-Core 57.7 2-Core 108 50% 80.4 Pts	4-Core 211 8-Core 402 36% 307 Pts	64-Core 426 26% 426 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R7 250 5,461 User benchmarks, average bench 9% MSI(1462 3012) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 21.19.160.769 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	9.54% Terrible	Lighting 12.3 Reflection 13.1 Parallax 17.6 10% 14.3 fps	MRender 7.43 Gravity 12.7 Splatting 11 9% 10.4 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9.54% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Sol id State Disk 240GB 298 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 37GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3550 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 541 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 681 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3014770 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 218 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 8647	74.7% Very good	Read 505 Write 399 Mixed 416 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 52.3 4K Mixed 12.9 79% 29.4 MB/s	DQ Read 166 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 56.5 71% 127 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 85%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 536GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 532 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1217 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 126 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2219 (C2) HDA temperature 114 106 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	83.6% Excellent	Read 195 Write 95.9 Mixed 133 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.28 89% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 109%
USB DISK 8GB 49 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 8GB free, PID 1320 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	3.96% Terrible	Read 12.7 Write 4.05 Mixed 6.15 8% 7.64 MB/s	4K Read 5.15 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.004 19% 1.72 MB/s
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 3.96% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 437 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.7% Average	MC Read 16.7 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 14.6 44% 15.4 GB/s	SC Read 7.7 SC Write 6.9 SC Mixed 9.4 23% 8 GB/s	Latency 90.6 44% 90.6 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 41.7% Great: 71%

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

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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	431x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	86x
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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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