Gigabyte GA-970A-D3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 70.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	103% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150206
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	May 08 '18 at 03:29
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 4.8 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	Memory 89.1 1-Core 81.2 2-Core 151 65% 107 Pts	4-Core 285 8-Core 521 48% 403 Pts	64-Core 523 32% 523 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.9% 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 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 146 Parallax 136 108% 138 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 133 Splatting 112 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 312GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 178 178 34379071837 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 11486 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 21505 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 5825 (C0) Power-off retract count 91 91 11559 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 11559 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 309238824992 (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 200 200 0	91.4% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 148 Mixed 17.7 81% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 0.58 4K Mixed 0.19 64% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 181GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 236168568 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1113 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 34421992152 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10502 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1092 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 93 93 7 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 46 555089953 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 134 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12991 (C2) HDA temperature 33 54 85899345953 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 58 1153 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -26972394608441 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19805694955 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12156306834	61% Good	Read 119 Write 93.1 Mixed 14.7 55% 75.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.21 88% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 112%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 118GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 12 (03) Spinup time 137 124 6133 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14924 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 29134 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7877 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1863 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 143 143 172893 (C2) HDA temperature 116 81 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 172884 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	38.7% Below average	Read 73 Write 61.8 Mixed 22.5 38% 52.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.2 72% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 57%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 99GB free Firmware: MS2OA7L0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 71 (03) Spinup time 133 133 12895518902 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 23435 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 115 115 34 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 16641 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 21546 (C0) Power-off retract count 81 81 23462 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 23462 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 223339544608 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	82.7% Excellent	Read 154 Write 135 Mixed 22.7 75% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.19 87% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4 KHX1600C10D3/ KHX1600C9D3/4 KHX1600C10D3/ 16GB 128 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 667, 800, 667, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	44.3% Average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 14.9 44% 15.4 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 9.7 SC Mixed 12.3 31% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 56%

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 - $248

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	89x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	61x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	52x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	21x
GTX 660Nvidia $170Bench 20%, 123,956 samples	16x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	23x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	11x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	10x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	85x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	73x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	51x

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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $465

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 $40	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