Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 63.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	83.8% 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	52.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	8.5 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	May 14 '17 at 01:44
Run Duration	355 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing as expected (56^th 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% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	63.9% Good	Memory 83 1-Core 67.7 2-Core 129 58% 93.2 Pts	4-Core 243 8-Core 389 39% 316 Pts	64-Core 387 24% 387 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 108 Parallax 103 87% 106 fps	MRender 95.3 Gravity 96.4 Splatting 95.4 78% 95.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intenso Sata III 128GB 2,059 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 40GB free Firmware: O0617A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 51 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 334 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 37 (A3) Unknown 100 100 8 (A4) Unknown 100 100 18440 (A5) Unknown 100 100 40 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 332 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 47415 (F2) Unknown 100 100 60278 (F5) Unknown 100 100 73760	62.1% Good	Read 505 Write 148 Mixed 230 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 47.7 4K Mixed 25.9 91% 31.8 MB/s	DQ Read 93.7 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 55.8 55% 86.5 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 91%
Intenso Sata III 128GB 2,059 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: O0617A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 324 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 335 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 27 (A3) Unknown 100 100 18 (A4) Unknown 100 100 44380 (A5) Unknown 100 100 111 (A6) Unknown 100 100 10 (A7) Unknown 100 100 44 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 12 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 77 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 104845 (F2) Unknown 100 100 86262 (F5) Unknown 100 100 177520	52.4% Above average	Read 500 Write 152 Mixed 230 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 17.4 4K Write 41.1 4K Mixed 14.3 67% 24.3 MB/s	DQ Read 21.9 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 58.6 49% 67.3 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 52.4% Great: 91%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 414GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 3 45 (03) Spinup time 76 76 8140 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 5560 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 43 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 9807 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 25362 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3073 (0D) Soft read error rate 99 4 45 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 50841 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 82 48 303169554 (C2) HDA temperature 79 46 353501205 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 356201 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 43 (C5) Current pending sector count 99 90 45 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	52.6% Above average	Read 85 Write 98.5 Mixed 88.3 68% 90.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.46 94% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 62%
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro 8GB 820 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 5GB free, PID 5406 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	5.51% Terrible	Read 20.2 Write 4.9 Mixed 4.99 10% 10 MB/s	4K Read 6.29 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.01 24% 2.1 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.51% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMX8GX3M2A160 CT51264BD160B CMX8GX3M2A160 12GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 667, 800, 667 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	41.5% Average	MC Read 15.9 MC Write 14.1 MC Mixed 13.8 42% 14.6 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 10.9 28% 9.7 GB/s	Latency 75.2 53% 75.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 44%

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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 $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 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 $29Bench 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 $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 $179	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