Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 62% Destroyer	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 66.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	5.24% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	68% 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	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130109
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 01:10
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	ALB-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	66.9% Good	Memory 86.4 1-Core 72.1 2-Core 145 62% 101 Pts	4-Core 257 8-Core 414 41% 336 Pts	64-Core 398 25% 398 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6570 19,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 2558) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	5.24% Terrible	Lighting 6.83 Reflection 6.92 Parallax 5.72 6% 6.49 fps	MRender 6.33 Gravity 5.07 Splatting 5.57 5% 5.66 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.24% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
STT_FTA480MM25 480GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 247GB free (System drive) Firmware: O0803B5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (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 100 100 463 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 134 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 232 (A3) Unknown 100 100 61 (A4) Unknown 100 100 47276 (A5) Unknown 100 100 42 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 12 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 3 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 66 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 54 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 139245 (F2) Unknown 100 100 121415 (F5) Unknown 100 100 189104	68% Good	Read 340 Write 300 Mixed 264 67% 301 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 65.6 4K Mixed 23.7 112% 40 MB/s	DQ Read 35.7 DQ Write 86.3 DQ Mixed 22.5 28% 48.2 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 81%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$60 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 770GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 126 126 21494759720 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 180 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 413 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 21 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 180 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 180 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 184684838948 (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	87% Excellent	Read 154 Write 149 Mixed 14.3 76% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.18 81% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-559.A 2x8GB 92 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	44.6% Average	MC Read 17.4 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 15.3 45% 15.8 GB/s	SC Read 9.3 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 12.4 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 71 56% 71 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 44.6% 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-DS3 - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	61x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	47x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	33x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	18x
GTX 650Nvidia $112Bench 8%, 69,673 samples	18x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	23x
MX500 1TBCrucial $84Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	8x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	63x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	59x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	33x

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