Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	95% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

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

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Feb 17 '20 at 23:25
Run Duration	133 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8120 25,690 User benchmarks, average bench 56% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 93.6 1-Core 73.4 2-Core 146 64% 104 Pts	4-Core 262 8-Core 426 42% 344 Pts	64-Core 434 27% 434 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 63%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3718) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2164 MHz, MLim: 2359 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 442.19 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	60.2% Good	Lighting 74.6 Reflection 78 Parallax 68.4 61% 73.7 fps	MRender 75.9 Gravity 67.9 Splatting 72.3 59% 72 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 149GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 273 230 274 274 271 258 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	95% Outstanding	Read 485 Write 436 Mixed 358 SusWrite 264 86% 385 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 69.7 4K Mixed 46.6 154% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 267 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 183 157% 231 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 118%
Crucial MX500 1TB-$74 202,785 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 252GB free Firmware: M3CR023 SusWrite @10s intervals: 264 403 403 412 407 382 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	97.3% Outstanding	Read 489 Write 420 Mixed 399 SusWrite 378 95% 422 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 68.3 4K Mixed 43.5 143% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 248 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 228 170% 226 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 125%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT4G3D1869DT 2x4GB 374 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	MC Read 22.9 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 18.9 54% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 9.6 SC Mixed 13.5 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 60.7 66% 60.7 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 55%

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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 22%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	157x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	15x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	12x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2x8GBCorsairBench 46%, 237 samples	9x

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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $217

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16