Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 3% Tree trunk	Desktop 43% Speed boat	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 47%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	3.48% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 13:41
Run Duration	311 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon II X3 425 1,367 User benchmarks, average bench 42% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 3 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 2.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	47% Average	Memory 73.7 1-Core 39.7 2-Core 79.7 43% 64.4 Pts	4-Core 121 8-Core 120 16% 120 Pts	64-Core 120 7% 120 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 50%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 430 22,369 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 836D) 1GB CLim: 700 MHz, MLim: 400 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	3.48% Terrible	Lighting 4.27 Reflection 5.04 Parallax 3.5 4% 4.27 fps	MRender 5.9 Gravity 4.3 Splatting 3.09 4% 4.43 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.48% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 100 80419384 (03) Spinup time 98 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 30 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 101681 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 26 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 67 555286560 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 173 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 94489280544 (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 -11020886081529 (F1) Unknown 100 253 640938930 (F2) Unknown 100 253 56774401	109% Outstanding	Read 198 Write 183 Mixed 176 140% 186 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.2 81% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 847GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 184809296 (03) Spinup time 97 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5408 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 988381 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 30280 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 330 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 56 588906531 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 26633 (C2) HDA temperature 35 44 64424509475 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 107 42850 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 63827508991101 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5185358561 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1832538729	93.9% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 156 Mixed 161 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.28 82% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 113%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB-$60 30,974 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 659GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AA01109 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 36 7 (03) Spinup time 90 90 4050 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 1602 (05) Reallocated sector count 95 95 197 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 69704 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 6 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1588 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 24 5 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 5957 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 49 488374301 (C2) HDA temperature 70 48 521863198 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2600818 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 17 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 98 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	47.5% Average	Read 85.6 Write 79.5 Mixed 79.5 61% 81.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.57 134% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 60%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 528GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 87 60 4043 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5344 (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 20005 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 429 (B5) Unknown 100 100 281016 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 14 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 210454315039 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1106 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 5351	59.5% Above average	Read 90.1 Write 117 Mixed 110 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.27 82% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 72%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 246GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 247 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 88 67 3838 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11265 (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 32582 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 734 (B5) Unknown 96 96 107131222 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2826 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 43 253403987998 (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 100 100 171 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 20 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 11282	47.9% Average	Read 55.2 Write 112 Mixed 82.7 63% 83.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.24 63% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 72%
Generic- SD/MMC 16GB 1,006 User benchmarks, average bench 9% 11GB free, PID 0109 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	7.05% Terrible	Read 16.5 Write 9.05 Mixed 11.2 14% 12.3 MB/s	4K Read 3.25 4K Write 0.62 4K Mixed 0.51 51% 1.46 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 7.05% Great: 12%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G3D1609DS Nanya M2F4G64CB8HG5 BLS4G3D1609DS Kingston 99U5471-012.A 16GB 800, 667, 800, 667 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	32.1% Below average	MC Read 14.1 MC Write 7.1 MC Mixed 12.4 32% 11.2 GB/s	SC Read 6.9 SC Write 7.2 SC Mixed 8.8 22% 7.63 GB/s	Latency 93.2 43% 93.2 ns

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	939x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	854x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	395x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	279x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	157x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	140x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	109x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	148x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	68x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 39%, 4,786 samples	61x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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