Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 35% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 70.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	57.6% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	70.9% 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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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151103
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	May 28 '19 at 15:53
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Memory 92.8 1-Core 73 2-Core 144 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 264 8-Core 437 43% 351 Pts	64-Core 428 26% 428 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 580-$130 360,351 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Sapphire(1DA2 E366) CLim: 1411 MHz, MLim: 1750 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 19.2.3 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	57.6% Above average	Lighting 72.6 Reflection 73 Parallax 90.1 59% 78.6 fps	MRender 69.9 Gravity 73.4 Splatting 59.3 54% 67.5 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD SusWrite @10s intervals: 178 50 52 61 30 64 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	70.9% Very good	Read 484 Write 343 Mixed 324 SusWrite 72.5 68% 306 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 61.7 4K Mixed 36.9 116% 40.8 MB/s	DQ Read 251 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 105 115% 193 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 82%
Ocz-octane S2 64GB 99 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 59GB free Firmware: 4.13 SusWrite @10s intervals: 70 67 68 70 67 69 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	33.3% Below average	Read 198 Write 75.7 Mixed 88.5 SusWrite 68.7 24% 108 MB/s	4K Read 14.9 4K Write 30.8 4K Mixed 15.7 59% 20.5 MB/s	DQ Read 105 DQ Write 31.5 DQ Mixed 37.8 36% 58.1 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 33.3% Great: 33%
WD WD2500KS-00MJB0 250GB-$78 8,440 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 41GB free Firmware: 02.01C03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 51 50 49 49 50 52 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	25.7% Poor	Read 39 Write 38.5 Mixed 33 SusWrite 50 30% 40.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 1.1 191% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 25.7% Great: 35%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2018)-$48 695,066 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2TB free Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 214 210 206 216 220 219 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 53% Great: 106%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 96GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 96 90 96 96 96 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	70.1% Very good	Read 150 Write 145 Mixed 82.3 SusWrite 93.7 86% 118 MB/s	4K Read 1.5 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1.2 242% 1.73 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GB 7,567 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	48.9% Average	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 15.6 50% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.6 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 12.4 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 50%

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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-970-GAMING

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	157x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	15x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
A400 120GBKingston $30Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	12x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2x8GBCorsairBench 46%, 237 samples	9x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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