Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 40% Jet ski	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 33% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 69.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	52.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	88.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Run History

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	4320 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 18 '18 at 05:18
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.9% Good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 75 2-Core 140 64% 102 Pts	4-Core 259 8-Core 439 42% 349 Pts	64-Core 442 27% 442 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2974) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	52.9% Above average	Lighting 67 Reflection 68.7 Parallax 66.4 55% 67.4 fps	MRender 68.5 Gravity 61.6 Splatting 54.4 50% 61.5 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 121GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1101 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 75 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 48 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2135327182	88.5% Excellent	Read 492 Write 381 Mixed 404 95% 426 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 52.2 4K Mixed 35.5 126% 40.9 MB/s	DQ Read 175 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 65.1 71% 121 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 124%
PNY CS900 120GB-$25 42,924 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 71GB free Firmware: CS900106 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9079 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 834 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 78 78 201 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6094970 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 337 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 37 (E7) Temperature 100 100 90 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6974	74% Very good	Read 393 Write 417 Mixed 433 93% 414 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 60.3 4K Mixed 9.51 91% 33.5 MB/s	DQ Read 185 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 16.5 53% 116 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 318GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 1224 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1037 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 418947412 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12786 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1040 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 60 488308763 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 47244640283 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 47 27 1224 (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 -79392470453790 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2716700656 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2484588451	63.6% Good	Read 115 Write 107 Mixed 116 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.09 4K Mixed 0.72 129% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4 Corsair CML8GX3M2A160 F3-12800CL9-4 Corsair CML8GX3M2A160 16GB 51 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 800, 667, 800, 667 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	50.2% Above average	MC Read 20.3 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 17.7 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 12.8 31% 11 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 51%

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Gaming 22%

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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	940x
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	158x

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 $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