Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 50% Yacht	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including moderate gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 53%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	0.5% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	68.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

2 years ago, 23 months ago, 23 months ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 25 '17 at 21:41
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Extreme
AMD FX-8350-$130 263,033 User benchmarks, average bench 49% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.8 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	53% Above average	1-Core 79.4 2-Core 152 55% 116 Pts	4-Core 292 8-Core 600 55% 446 Pts	64-Core 602 40% 602 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 55%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$290 822,080 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6264) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2189 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.71 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	0.5% Terrible	Lighting 22.6 Reflection 7.4 Parallax 57.2 6% 29.1 fps	MRender 0.6 Gravity 0.9 Splatting 191 0% 64 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 0.5% Great: 61%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC240G1CS2754D117-488 240GB 1,274 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 90GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS211101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th 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 1774 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1955 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 363 (B1) Unknown 0 0 28 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 100 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 925 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 105 (E7) Temperature 100 100 36 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9 (EA) Unknown 0 0 48 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6595 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7167	68.7% Good	Read 502 Write 294 Mixed 370 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 18 4K Write 54.3 4K Mixed 17.2 78% 29.8 MB/s	DQ Read 174 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 51.2 69% 127 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 97%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$50 50,471 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 852GB free Firmware: JP4OA3GH Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 77 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 100 92 (03) Spinup time 144 100 17198416114 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2438 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 144 100 28 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 46060 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2167 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 81 5049077 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 44 538968096 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2467 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2467 (C2) HDA temperature 187 109 240518955040 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	76.6% Very good	Read 129 Write 138 Mixed 129 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.31 81% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 2x8GB 71 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	53% Above average	MC Read 23.4 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 18.1 54% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 12.8 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 53%

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

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 44%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P - $108

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 41%, 184,251 samples	2,075x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 49%, 263,033 samples	1,820x
FX-8320AMD $163Bench 44%, 88,550 samples	1,022x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $290Bench 56%, 822,080 samples	473x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 285,564 samples	440x
GTX 970Nvidia $380Bench 52%, 542,479 samples	376x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $75Bench 102%, 584,199 samples	269x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $55Bench 54%, 227,680 samples	264x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $115Bench 109%, 476,520 samples	124x

RAM
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 41%, 3,743 samples	266x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 6,003 samples	180x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 3,524 samples	160x

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Value: 43% - Average

Total price: $563

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-9600K $210	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $230	Crucial MX500 250GB $49
Intel Core i5-9400F $146	Nvidia GTX 1650S (Super) $170	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i7-9700K $370	Nvidia RTX 2070S (Super) $500	Samsung 850 Pro 512GB $249

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $74	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $42	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $84	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $681	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16