Asrock 970A-G/3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 55% Yacht	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 54.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	11.4% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	44.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock 970A-G/3.1 (all builds)
Memory	6.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160112
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '17 at 17:23
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	IDN-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X4 B55 3,005 User benchmarks, average bench 54% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	54.6% Above average	Memory 76.2 1-Core 45 2-Core 94.4 46% 71.9 Pts	4-Core 194 8-Core 191 26% 192 Pts	64-Core 185 11% 185 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5770 37,602 User benchmarks, average bench 10% PwrHis(1787 200A) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	11.4% Very poor	Lighting 15.2 Reflection 11.1 Parallax 12.9 12% 13.1 fps	MRender 10.6 Gravity 11.4 Splatting 12.7 10% 11.5 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 11.4% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba OCZ TL100 240GB-$56 10,555 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 200GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFZ10.1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 13 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C2) HDA temperature 62 62 163210461222 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1875	44.8% Average	Read 386 Write 115 Mixed 153 47% 218 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 44.7 4K Mixed 6.91 74% 26.4 MB/s	DQ Read 28.1 DQ Write 44.3 DQ Mixed 6.76 13% 26.4 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 89%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2004)-$47 218,164 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 751GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 183 1708 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14830 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3297 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 471 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 236 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 187 187 41761 (C2) HDA temperature 111 105 36 (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	46.5% Average	Read 83.3 Write 78.5 Mixed 84.6 62% 82.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.25 84% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 62%
Seagate ST3320820AS 320GB-$55 14,577 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 302GB free Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 87 198576489 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6251 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 721840524 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19801 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 7084 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1963 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 49 640024614 (C2) HDA temperature 38 51 98784247846 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 84 61 84731171 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	26.1% Poor	Read 45.4 Write 45.2 Mixed 36.7 32% 42.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.39 87% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 26.1% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31.5% Below average	MC Read 14.8 MC Write 7.6 MC Mixed 10.7 32% 11 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 6.2 SC Mixed 7.7 20% 6.83 GB/s	Latency 87.9 46% 87.9 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 31.5% Great: 65%

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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 $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	17x

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 $80Bench 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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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