Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 66.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	60.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	16.4 GB free of 20 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Apr 24 '18 at 19:59
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	66.2% Good	Memory 83.8 1-Core 73.4 2-Core 145 61% 101 Pts	4-Core 263 8-Core 423 42% 343 Pts	64-Core 431 27% 431 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3283) CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	60.5% Good	Lighting 76.1 Reflection 77.6 Parallax 73.7 62% 75.8 fps	MRender 70.5 Gravity 69.4 Splatting 71.2 58% 70.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 822GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (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 1154 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 381 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 149 (A3) Unknown 100 100 50 (A4) Unknown 100 100 49395 (A5) Unknown 100 100 52 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 122 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1252160 (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 35560 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 394662 (F2) Unknown 100 100 661358 (F5) Unknown 100 100 790320	77.2% Very good	Read 500 Write 428 Mixed 456 103% 461 MB/s	4K Read 20 4K Write 54.7 4K Mixed 17.6 82% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 155 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 17.6 50% 106 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 105%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1TB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 67 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 66 44 10435 (04) Start/Stop count 66 66 34692 (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 49389 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 785 (B5) Unknown 75 75 551383979 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 91 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 50 214749282333 (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 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 8346 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 34873	66.6% Good	Read 108 Write 124 Mixed 110 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.37 106% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-096.A 9905403-096.A 20GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 667, 800, 667, 800 MHz 2048, 8192, 2048, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	41.5% Average	MC Read 16.5 MC Write 13.8 MC Mixed 13.3 42% 14.5 GB/s	SC Read 9.3 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 11.6 28% 9.9 GB/s	Latency 73.8 54% 73.8 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 43%

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

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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	944x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	855x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	280x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	181x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	159x

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	62x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16