Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 66.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	102% 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	52.9% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161107
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '17 at 06:26
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing below expectations (38^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% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	66.4% Good	Memory 84 1-Core 73.7 2-Core 140 60% 99.2 Pts	4-Core 264 8-Core 410 42% 337 Pts	64-Core 396 24% 396 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 2471) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2902 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 114 Reflection 157 Parallax 202 93% 158 fps	MRender 134 Gravity 184 Splatting 129 120% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 248GB free Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	Read 1,065 Write 272 Mixed 464 130% 600 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 49.8 4K Mixed 17.5 99% 33.5 MB/s	DQ Read 192 DQ Write 94.2 DQ Mixed 47.2 61% 111 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 155%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 17444582 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 35957466204076 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 256 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 96 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 50 68722753568 (C2) HDA temperature 32 50 68722753568 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 17444582 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 17444582 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 17444582 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 64424509441 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3513 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2099 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2099 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2105 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2555925	52.9% Above average	Read 422 Write 119 Mixed 162 51% 234 MB/s	4K Read 18 4K Write 59.3 4K Mixed 17.2 81% 31.5 MB/s	DQ Read 84.5 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 27.4 42% 78.9 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 73%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 365GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 171 2266 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 269 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1960 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 250 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3389 (C2) HDA temperature 113 103 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	91.5% Outstanding	Read 204 Write 115 Mixed 120 109% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.69 4K Mixed 0.26 114% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	45.2% Average	MC Read 18.3 MC Write 13.7 MC Mixed 16.3 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 9.2 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 12.6 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 73.4 54% 73.4 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 88%

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

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA - $299

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	431x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	13x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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