Asrock 970A-G/3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	93.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	129% 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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Run History

Motherboard	Asrock 970A-G/3.1 (all builds)
Memory	19 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160112
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 23 '20 at 17:27
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8300-$168 49,767 User benchmarks, average bench 58% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.75 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75.5% Very good	Memory 90.1 1-Core 84.8 2-Core 169 68% 115 Pts	4-Core 329 8-Core 513 52% 421 Pts	64-Core 489 30% 489 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060-$324 645,160 User benchmarks, average bench 90% MSI(1462 3755) CLim: 2220 MHz, MLim: 3563 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	93.9% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 119 Parallax 121 98% 120 fps	MRender 139 Gravity 104 Splatting 85.7 87% 110 fps
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 97%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 760p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB-$39 1,967 User benchmarks, average bench 132% 89GB free (System drive) Firmware: 005C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 203 140 141 141 142 141 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Read 1081 Write 565 Mixed 678 SusWrite 151 137% 619 MB/s	4K Read 51.8 4K Write 77.4 4K Mixed 63.7 201% 64.3 MB/s	DQ Read 403 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 140 145% 243 MB/s
Poor: 88% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 165%
KingFast 240GB 4,155 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 185GB free Firmware: Q0526A SusWrite @10s intervals: 256 323 288 284 284 287 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	94.2% Outstanding	Read 465 Write 385 Mixed 366 SusWrite 287 84% 376 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 77.4 4K Mixed 45 149% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 104 120% 207 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 94.2% Great: 94%
KingFast 240GB 4,155 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 221GB free Firmware: Q0526A SusWrite @10s intervals: 255 324 286 286 286 286 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	94% Outstanding	Read 462 Write 387 Mixed 364 SusWrite 287 84% 375 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 77.1 4K Mixed 44.9 149% 51.7 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 103 120% 207 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 94%
Asrock RAM Disk 3GB 1GB free Firmware: 1.00 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples		Read 4,087 Write 3577 Mixed 3,560 834% 3,741 MB/s	4K Read 213 4K Write 189 4K Mixed 199 679% 201 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 315 DQ Mixed 332 251% 338 MB/s

WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 698GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 66 71 72 138 155 157 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	74.2% Very good	Read 149 Write 77.8 Mixed 83.4 SusWrite 110 78% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.9 148% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1866 CL10 Series 1866 CL10 Series Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G 24GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1866, 1866, 1866 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	52.4% Above average	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 16.4 MC Mixed 18.2 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 12.4 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 67.1 60% 67.1 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 52.4% Great: 55%

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Gaming 20%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asrock 970A-G/3.1

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	112x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	80x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	17x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	9x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	4x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 1x8GBG.SKILLBench 27%, 2,515 samples	34x
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 9,944 samples	20x
1866 CL10 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 54%, 7,244 samples	9x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $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