Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 69.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	92.4% 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	76.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 01 '18 at 22:49
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th 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, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Memory 89.6 1-Core 71.6 2-Core 130 61% 97.1 Pts	4-Core 270 8-Core 434 43% 352 Pts	64-Core 433 27% 433 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6288) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	92.4% Outstanding	Lighting 111 Reflection 148 Parallax 139 91% 133 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 137 Splatting 107 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB-$80 762,998 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 385GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 58 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 48 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 67 56 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 15 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1020733202	76.9% Very good	Read 490 Write 372 Mixed 406 94% 423 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 57.3 4K Mixed 21 110% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 33.3 DQ Write 66.3 DQ Mixed 19.1 23% 39.5 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 129%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 850GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 171 2425 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 157 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 229 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 154 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 178 (C2) HDA temperature 116 105 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	96.8% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 147 Mixed 156 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.31 118% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown EWB8GB681PAE- 1x8GB 449 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	31.7% Below average	MC Read 10.9 MC Write 10.3 MC Mixed 8.9 29% 10 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 10.1 28% 9.8 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 32%

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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%

Battle cruiser

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 $175Bench 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	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	61x

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Total price: $366

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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