Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 62.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	91.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	38.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

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

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '18 at 02:21
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

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PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	62.7% Good	Memory 83 1-Core 65.9 2-Core 121 56% 90.1 Pts	4-Core 230 8-Core 416 39% 323 Pts	64-Core 418 26% 418 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	91.8% Outstanding	Lighting 108 Reflection 136 Parallax 139 88% 128 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 137 Splatting 111 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Sandisk PLUS 480 GB 480GB 8,604 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 354GB free (System drive) Firmware: UG3000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 731 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 87 (A5) Unknown 100 100 233 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 377 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 50 214748364840 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 283470463042 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 787 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2629 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1057 (F2) Unknown 100 100 761 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	38.4% Below average	Read 512 Write 180 Mixed 285 71% 326 MB/s	4K Read 16 4K Write 0.38 4K Mixed 1.09 26% 5.81 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 38.4% Great: 57%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 417GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 168650808 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2254 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16924569 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5180 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 713 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 57 623050789 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 26991 (C2) HDA temperature 37 43 64424509477 (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 -5420248724476 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8859119155 (F2) Unknown 100 253 36733603042	90.6% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 143 Mixed 142 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 5.36 4K Mixed 0.72 207% 2.25 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 112%
Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB-$102 29,256 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 358GB free Firmware: 3.AAK Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 97 48923997 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3928 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 681589725 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 42681 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2877 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 2287 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 45 724172843 (C2) HDA temperature 43 55 68719476779 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 60 56 7549649 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	38.9% Below average	Read 59.4 Write 76 Mixed 57.2 48% 64.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.28 85% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 745 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	44.8% Average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 15.5 46% 16 GB/s	SC Read 9.9 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 12 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 75.1 53% 75.1 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 54%

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Gaming 20%

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Desktop 64%

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Workstation 15%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P - $248

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	196x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	161x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	47x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	41x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	29x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	16x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	20x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	17x
F3 DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 41%, 3,080 samples	11x

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Total price: $391

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