Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 71.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	69.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	38.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '16 at 10:45
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-9590-$298 26,109 User benchmarks, average bench 63% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	Memory 93.4 1-Core 76.3 2-Core 150 65% 107 Pts	4-Core 273 8-Core 469 45% 371 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 13C0) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1604 MHz, MLim: 1858 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 375.57 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.1% Good	Lighting 87.8 Reflection 96.2 Parallax 83.3 72% 89.1 fps	MRender 86 Gravity 79.4 Splatting 72.9 64% 79.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba Q300 240GB-$85 5,005 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 136GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 546 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 527 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 198 198 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 280 (C2) HDA temperature 75 57 184684118041	38.5% Below average	Read 314 Write 174 Mixed 151 47% 213 MB/s	4K Read 18.9 4K Write 21.6 4K Mixed 6.26 48% 15.6 MB/s	DQ Read 23.3 DQ Write 47.1 DQ Mixed 6 13% 25.5 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 93%
Hitachi HTS723232A7A364 320GB 11,127 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 209GB free Firmware: EC2OA60W Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 64 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 100 73014444033 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3221 (05) Reallocated sector count 75 67 49283914 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 5590 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2870 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 42 12048094789698 (BC) Unknown 100 1 5165 (BE) vendor-specific 78 43 336986134 (BF) G-sense error rate 93 93 2025 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 22151506 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 146355 (C4) Reallocation count 76 76 768 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 72 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 97 97 811 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	52.4% Above average	Read 90.3 Write 92.5 Mixed 31.3 52% 71.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.34 88% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 52.4% Great: 58%
Seagate STM3250318AS 250GB 3,989 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 81GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 195610580 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 19405 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 212036384 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7342 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 9705 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 65924 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 77 57 387252247 (C2) HDA temperature 23 43 34359738391 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 26 195610580 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -87007447452176 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2295155441 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1389921965	53.3% Above average	Read 96.2 Write 89.5 Mixed 93.2 70% 93 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.46 100% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D18ADS3 2x8GB 422 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	53.6% Above average	MC Read 23 MC Write 16.3 MC Mixed 18.5 55% 19.3 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 13.9 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 61.3 65% 61.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 54%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P - $300

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	230x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	224x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	147x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	47x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	46x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	34x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	29x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	27x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	43x
BLS4G3D1609DS 2x4GBCrucialBench 43%, 4,102 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	20x

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Total price: $645

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16