Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (22nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 78 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 58.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Boot Drive	42.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

High background CPU (28%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	26.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20161107
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '18 at 20:12
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

PC Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8300-$168 49,767 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	58.1% Above average	Memory 75.4 1-Core 61.4 2-Core 120 53% 85.6 Pts	4-Core 221 8-Core 371 36% 296 Pts	64-Core 385 24% 385 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2972) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.77 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 87.9 Reflection 62 Parallax 55.8 72% 68.6 fps	Gravity 56.7 Splatting 49.9 47% 53.3 fps
Poor: 43% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 36GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11472 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 573 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 72 59 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 107 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9557197768	99.9% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 373 Mixed 406 94% 425 MB/s	4K Read 38.6 4K Write 74.3 4K Mixed 43.2 153% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 265 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 103 109% 183 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 134%
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 4GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 28184319 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 -128969277948736 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 657 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 262 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 55 77313015842 (C2) HDA temperature 34 55 77313015842 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 28184319 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 28184319 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 28184319 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 93 93 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 39371 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11820 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11820 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7348 (F4) Unknown 90 90 20644155	42.2% Average	Read 291 Write 84.1 Mixed 153 38% 176 MB/s	4K Read 16.8 4K Write 57.2 4K Mixed 12.4 72% 28.8 MB/s	DQ Read 79 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 29.5 42% 76.4 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 42.2% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 12,722 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1066 MHz clocked @ 533 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	37.8% Below average	MC Read 13.7 MC Write 14 MC Mixed 12.5 38% 13.4 GB/s	SC Read 8.2 SC Write 8.2 SC Mixed 10.3 25% 8.9 GB/s	Latency 89.5 45% 89.5 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 37.8% Great: 80%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA - $299

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	431x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	13x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $588

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