Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 70.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	71.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '19 at 17:33
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^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 4.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Memory 93.6 1-Core 74.4 2-Core 126 62% 98.1 Pts	4-Core 260 8-Core 453 43% 357 Pts	64-Core 453 28% 453 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Nvidia(10DE 1C03) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 417.35 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	60.3% Good	Lighting 75 Reflection 76.7 Parallax 74.2 61% 75.3 fps	MRender 72.6 Gravity 70.6 Splatting 71.8 59% 71.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba HG6 128GB 5,641 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: JULA SusWrite @10s intervals: 315 239 256 199 342 101 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	71.7% Very good	Read 404 Write 368 Mixed 367 SusWrite 242 78% 345 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 67.3 4K Mixed 25.9 96% 36.9 MB/s	DQ Read 280 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 252 189% 254 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 104%
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 26GB free Firmware: MAT0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 259 129 129 129 129 128 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Read 417 Write 394 Mixed 308 SusWrite 150 71% 317 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 91 4K Mixed 42.5 148% 54.4 MB/s	DQ Read 240 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 251 186% 245 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 110%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 137 135 140 139 140 139 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	78.4% Very good	Read 135 Write 136 Mixed 102 SusWrite 138 94% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1 195% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 86%
SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 64GB-$7 7,617 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 31GB free, PID 5591 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 32 22 16 16 16 7.9 MB/s Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Read 90.3 Write 29.4 Mixed 42.9 SusWrite 18.2 51% 45.2 MB/s	4K Read 4.9 4K Mixed 1.5 104% 3.2 MB/s
Poor: 13% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G3D1869DT 2x8GB 219 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	54.3% Above average	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 15.9 MC Mixed 19.6 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 12.4 31% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 60.7 66% 60.7 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 54%

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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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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $366

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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