Gigabyte GA-970A-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 67.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	78.6% 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	50.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150206
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 17 '17 at 04:37
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (60^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, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	67.8% Good	Memory 91.6 1-Core 71.9 2-Core 142 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 254 8-Core 274 35% 264 Pts	64-Core 286 18% 286 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.6% Very good	Lighting 95.2 Reflection 114 Parallax 106 78% 105 fps	MRender 96.3 Gravity 99.9 Splatting 98.5 80% 98.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 240GB 179 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 9GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.10 Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	50.3% Above average	Read 365 Write 310 Mixed 283 71% 319 MB/s	4K Read 4.27 4K Write 62.5 4K Mixed 5.98 47% 24.3 MB/s	DQ Read 67 DQ Write 78.1 DQ Mixed 32.8 36% 59.3 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 120%
Seagate ST3000VM002-1ET1 3TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 304GB free Firmware: SC11 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	56.8% Above average	Read 74 Write 124 Mixed 105 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.11 54% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 79%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 260GB free Firmware: CC4B Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	71.2% Very good	Read 95.7 Write 152 Mixed 163 104% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.28 93% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 112%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 5TB 952 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 3.5TB free, PID ab34 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	70.1% Very good	Read 158 Write 112 Mixed 77.9 136% 116 MB/s	4K Read 1.07 4K Write 7.35 4K Mixed 0.6 274% 3.01 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 78%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 10,715 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 800 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	52.6% Above average	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 19.2 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 8.2 SC Mixed 12.6 29% 10.3 GB/s	Latency 64.9 62% 64.9 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 54%

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

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 - $248

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	89x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	61x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	52x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	21x
GTX 660Nvidia $170Bench 20%, 123,956 samples	16x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	23x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	11x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	10x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	85x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	73x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	51x

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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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16