Asrock 970A-G/3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	88.7% 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	55.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock 970A-G/3.1 (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160112
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 24 '18 at 03:38
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	HND-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	74.4% Very good	Memory 96.2 1-Core 80.6 2-Core 151 67% 109 Pts	4-Core 285 8-Core 494 47% 390 Pts	64-Core 494 31% 494 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2164 MHz, MLim: 2202 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 119 Parallax 99.7 90% 110 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 103 Splatting 106 86% 105 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 149GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z320 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 5677 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1282 (A5) Unknown 100 100 6416805201725 (A6) Unknown 100 100 6 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 21 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 707 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 30 300647710762 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2650008126057 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3402 (EA) Unknown 100 100 17517 (F1) Unknown 253 253 8932 (F2) Unknown 253 253 13864 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	55.9% Above average	Read 502 Write 205 Mixed 233 68% 313 MB/s	4K Read 9.2 4K Write 71.5 4K Mixed 4.21 57% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 3.68 47% 112 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 86%
Marvell Raid VD 4TB 193 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 2TB free Firmware: MV.R Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	151% Outstanding	Read 302 Write 225 Mixed 207 183% 245 MB/s	4K Read 1.57 4K Write 3.62 4K Mixed 0.65 204% 1.95 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 151% Great: 186%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 207GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 16 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1736 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 4813887007 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11060 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1987 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 57 505217054 (C2) HDA temperature 30 43 42949672990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 41 26 16 (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 33062658255681 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3133505630 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1423856894	64.4% Good	Read 121 Write 103 Mixed 74.8 74% 99.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.6 102% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 183 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	63% Good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 22.9 65% 22.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 10.5 SC Mixed 16.6 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 53.3 75% 53.3 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 62%

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Gaming 20%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asrock 970A-G/3.1

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	112x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	80x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	17x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	9x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	4x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 1x8GBG.SKILLBench 27%, 2,515 samples	34x
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 9,944 samples	20x
1866 CL10 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 54%, 7,244 samples	9x

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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