Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 65.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	117% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	9.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130116
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '23 at 17:18
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6350 Six-Core-$100 29,222 User benchmarks, average bench 59% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	65.2% Good	Memory 85.6 1-Core 73.5 2-Core 123 59% 94.2 Pts	4-Core 250 8-Core 316 36% 283 Pts	64-Core 319 20% 319 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 66%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070S (Super)-$210 663,603 User benchmarks, average bench 115% Nvidia(10DE 13AA) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 528.24 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	117% Outstanding	Lighting 152 Reflection 146 Parallax 160 124% 153 fps	MRender 186 Gravity 131 Splatting 114 114% 143 fps
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 123%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ct1000mx 50 1TB 2,171 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 782GB free Firmware: M3CR SusWrite @10s intervals: 379 383 397 412 367 312 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Read 377 Write 403 Mixed 372 SusWrite 375 86% 382 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 79.9 4K Mixed 49.5 164% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 264 DQ Write 228 DQ Mixed 158 143% 217 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 115%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 54GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 111 130 143 125 128 135 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	67.9% Good	Read 108 Write 108 Mixed 75.6 SusWrite 129 77% 105 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 1 202% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS8G3D169DS3 BLS8G3D1609DS 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 800, 800 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49.6% Average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 17.9 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.4 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 71.5 56% 71.5 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 50%

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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 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 - $300

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	109x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	62x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	46x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	23x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	23x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	14x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	94x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	93x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	61x

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Total price: $517

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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