Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	111% 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	72.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Very high background CPU (50%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P (all builds)
Memory	29.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130806
Uptime	2.4 Days
Run Date	Oct 24 '17 at 09:12
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	50%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70% Very good	Memory 91.7 1-Core 77.9 2-Core 134 63% 101 Pts	4-Core 262 8-Core 478 44% 370 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2862 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	111% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 187 Parallax 181 111% 168 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 177 Splatting 133 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 157GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6980 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1804 (B1) Unknown 97 97 30 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 45 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 87 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17575620847	72.3% Very good	Read 489 Write 327 Mixed 336 85% 384 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 42.9 4K Mixed 16 94% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 141 DQ Write 96.7 DQ Mixed 16.2 40% 84.7 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 118%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 117GB free Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1492 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 491 (A5) Unknown 100 100 197577932929 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 6 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 58 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 36 274877906984 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 184687001652 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 877 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1213 (F1) Unknown 253 253 963 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3248 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	66.6% Good	Read 502 Write 365 Mixed 229 81% 366 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 58.2 4K Mixed 3.82 64% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 150 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 2.86 43% 101 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 86%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 801GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 69 9257 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4352 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8794 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2188 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2774 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 210454380567 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 272 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4382	66.3% Good	Read 108 Write 123 Mixed 97.3 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.55 114% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 75%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 500GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 96 6 (03) Spinup time 75 75 8350 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8220 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18764 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4357 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 96 5 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 249 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 83 47 286326801 (C2) HDA temperature 81 45 319881235 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 74606 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 49 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	48.2% Average	Read 86.2 Write 81.6 Mixed 91.4 65% 86.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.4 100% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS 4x8GB 612 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	50.2% Above average	MC Read 19.7 MC Write 16.4 MC Mixed 17.6 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 13.4 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 50.2% 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 65%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P - $300

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	229x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	224x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	146x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	47x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	46x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	34x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	29x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	27x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	43x
BLS4G3D1609DS 2x4GBCrucialBench 43%, 4,102 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	20x

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Total price: $645

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 $45	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