Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 59% Gunboat	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 60%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	6.78% 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	48.3% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20141007
Uptime	5.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 22 '17 at 02:17
Run Duration	241 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-4100-$110 32,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	60% Good	Memory 88.4 1-Core 63.9 2-Core 110 56% 87.6 Pts	4-Core 186 8-Core 186 25% 186 Pts	64-Core 187 12% 187 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 58%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7750 22,655 User benchmarks, average bench 8% PwrHis(1787 2318) 2GB CLim: 800 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.3.1 Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	6.78% Terrible	Lighting 8 Reflection 9.92 Parallax 10.3 6% 9.4 fps	MRender 7.29 Gravity 8.97 Splatting 9.96 7% 8.74 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 6.78% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD 128GB-$84 8,513 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 42GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.0. Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 25614 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1822 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 193 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1623 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 643 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1188 (F1) Unknown 100 100 37092196026 (F2) Unknown 100 100 42327752993	48.3% Average	Read 503 Write 272 Mixed 225 73% 333 MB/s	4K Read 16.1 4K Write 9.79 4K Mixed 5.81 37% 10.6 MB/s	DQ Read 33.1 DQ Write 9.78 DQ Mixed 6.64 9% 16.5 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 56%
WD WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 500GB 13,629 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 216GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 161 138 4916 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5870 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 37 37 46295 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5027 (C0) Power-off retract count 194 194 4995 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 884338 (C2) HDA temperature 118 92 29 (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 8 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	36.2% Below average	Read 71.7 Write 54.1 Mixed 54.2 45% 60 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.23 80% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 36.2% Great: 44%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 156GB free Firmware: CR10 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 93 12 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6720 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7779 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 58364 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3453 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 4791990 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 16585882 (BC) Unknown 99 99 125 (BE) vendor-specific 76 48 24 (C2) HDA temperature 166 82 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4791990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 89 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 11 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 53 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 41	35.6% Below average	Read 47.6 Write 76.5 Mixed 59.2 46% 61.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.33 76% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 35.6% Great: 44%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 57GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 89 188915436 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 105867702 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 31291 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7453 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1366 (BC) Unknown 100 100 2 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 402 (BE) vendor-specific 77 56 404094999 (C2) HDA temperature 23 44 64424509463 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 51 34 188915436 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	39.2% Below average	Read 68.5 Write 68 Mixed 65 51% 67.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.54 114% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 60%
Mass Storage Device 1.5TB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 236GB free, PID 6116 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	13.8% Very poor	Read 33.4 Write 23.7 Mixed 26.8 34% 28 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.15 48% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 13.8% Great: 23%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 10,715 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	46.8% Average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 11.6 MC Mixed 18.2 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 8.9 SC Write 7.8 SC Mixed 12.2 28% 9.63 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 54%

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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	940x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	854x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	395x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	279x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	158x

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	61x

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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $184	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) $30	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