Gigabyte GA-970A-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 71.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	45.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 21 '17 at 20:25
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	11%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^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 way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.1% Very good	Memory 93.1 1-Core 73.2 2-Core 132 63% 99.3 Pts	4-Core 267 8-Core 442 43% 354 Pts	64-Core 442 27% 442 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Device(0000 0000) 3GB CLim: 2202 MHz, MLim: 2327 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.2% Good	Lighting 77.8 Reflection 77 Parallax 67.3 63% 74 fps	MRender 83.6 Gravity 73.2 Splatting 74.4 63% 77.1 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier SP550 240GB-$74 29,295 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0705AB Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd 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 100 100 343 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 488 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 23 (A3) Unknown 100 100 283 (94) Unknown 100 100 67383 (95) Unknown 100 100 933 (96) Unknown 100 100 804 (97) Unknown 100 100 910 (A4) Unknown 100 100 21889 (A5) Unknown 100 100 51 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 17 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 69 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38651017035804 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 90020 (F2) Unknown 100 100 87863 (F5) Unknown 100 100 129281 (F6) Unknown 100 100 134766 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	45.8% Average	Read 332 Write 205 Mixed 201 54% 246 MB/s	4K Read 25 4K Write 27.7 4K Mixed 9.8 65% 20.8 MB/s	DQ Read 26.5 DQ Write 31.8 DQ Mixed 9.45 13% 22.6 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 647GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 140185592 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3632 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 13175076776 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13359 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2913 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295032872 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 71 60 488374301 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 541 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30293 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 60129542173 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 115044994002557 (F1) Unknown 100 253 48420453482 (F2) Unknown 100 253 67173780771	84.6% Excellent	Read 145 Write 149 Mixed 139 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.32 113% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 4,425 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	47.3% Average	MC Read 20.1 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 14.9 47% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 12.4 31% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 61.9 65% 61.9 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 47.3% Great: 50%

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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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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $465

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16