Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 57% Gunboat	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 53.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	11.7% 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	151% 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	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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	4.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 27 '20 at 14:26
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon II X4 635 5,306 User benchmarks, average bench 45% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	53.4% Above average	Memory 76.1 1-Core 46.8 2-Core 92.7 46% 71.9 Pts	4-Core 180 8-Core 181 24% 180 Pts	64-Core 178 11% 178 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 53%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6770 16,639 User benchmarks, average bench 10% PwrHis(1787 2312) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.2401.0 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	11.7% Very poor	Lighting 15.8 Reflection 11.6 Parallax 12.6 13% 13.3 fps	MRender 10.4 Gravity 11.2 Splatting 12.7 10% 11.5 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 11.7% Great: 11%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX6000 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 12,045 User benchmarks, average bench 193% 236GB free (System drive) Firmware: V9001b31 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 453 538 561 571 543 578 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	151% Outstanding	Read 1,252 Write 563 Mixed 673 SusWrite 540 168% 757 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 96.7 4K Mixed 42.2 154% 57 MB/s	DQ Read 445 DQ Write 472 DQ Mixed 502 366% 473 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 151% Great: 278%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 1x8GB 3,795 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 800 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	23.5% Poor	MC Read 8.9 MC Write 6.5 MC Mixed 7.1 21% 7.5 GB/s	SC Read 6.9 SC Write 6.2 SC Mixed 6.7 19% 6.6 GB/s	Latency 88 45% 88 ns
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 23.5% Great: 32%

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

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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 $47Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16