Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 71.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	129% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	Χρώματα 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141031
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 03 '21 at 16:20
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.6 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.1% Very good	Memory 88 1-Core 82.7 2-Core 164 67% 112 Pts	4-Core 294 8-Core 472 47% 383 Pts	64-Core 417 26% 417 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2902 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 461.09 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 193 Reflection 201 Parallax 216 157% 203 fps	MRender 0.5 Gravity 200 Splatting 134 96% 112 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Burst 120GB 15,567 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 52GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM61.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 159 275 169 82 57 81 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	77.6% Very good	Read 453 Write 315 Mixed 328 SusWrite 137 69% 308 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 74.7 4K Mixed 32.1 134% 47.2 MB/s	DQ Read 246 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 173 148% 218 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 88%
Patriot Burst 120GB 15,567 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 5GB free Firmware: SBFM61.3 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 307 Write 224 Mixed 244 57% 258 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 29.2 126% 45.6 MB/s	DQ Read 173 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 152 129% 186 MB/s
Poor: 38% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS 4x4GB 1,395 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	50.8% Above average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 16.4 MC Mixed 18.2 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 13.4 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 69.5 58% 69.5 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 97%

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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%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	944x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	855x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	280x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	181x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	159x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	140x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	109x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	148x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	68x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 39%, 4,786 samples	62x

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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $366

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) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16