Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 70.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	11.9% 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	80.7% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161107
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 01 '17 at 01:06
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.4% Very good	Memory 93.7 1-Core 68.8 2-Core 137 62% 99.9 Pts	4-Core 256 8-Core 469 43% 362 Pts	64-Core 463 29% 463 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
AMD Radeon R5 240 4,978 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Dell(1028 210B) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	2.35% Terrible	Lighting 3.03 Reflection 2.38 Parallax 5.22 2% 3.55 fps	MRender 2.14 Gravity 3.9 Splatting 1.96 2% 2.67 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 2.35% Great: 6%
Nvidia Quadro K620-$170 16,214 User benchmarks, average bench 11% Nvidia(10DE 1098) 2GB CLim: 1124 MHz, MLim: 450 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 385.8 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	11.9% Very poor	Lighting 15 Reflection 14.3 Parallax 12.1 12% 13.8 fps	MRender 11.7 Gravity 13.5 Splatting 15.6 11% 13.6 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 11.9% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 171GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 344 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 520 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 52 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 284 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4829021942	80.7% Excellent	Read 491 Write 445 Mixed 465 104% 467 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 69.8 4K Mixed 21.6 106% 39.6 MB/s	DQ Read 28.9 DQ Write 72.5 DQ Mixed 20.8 24% 40.7 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 747GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 174 1850 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 290 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 177 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 269 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 205 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 248 (C2) HDA temperature 106 97 37 (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	103% Outstanding	Read 192 Write 167 Mixed 157 129% 172 MB/s	4K Read 1.05 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.25 115% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16KTF1G64AZ-1G9E1 2x8GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	56.1% Above average	MC Read 23.9 MC Write 16.6 MC Mixed 20.1 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 11.7 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 14.9 34% 11.9 GB/s	Latency 60.5 66% 60.5 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 59%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA - $299

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	431x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	13x

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Value: 62% - Good

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $178	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