Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Graphics	22% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	52.4% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '15 at 22:22
Run Duration	577 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320E-$87 33,199 User benchmarks, average bench 58% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 67.8 2-Core 122 44% 95.1 Pts	4-Core 215 8-Core 378 36% 297 Pts	64-Core 376 23% 376 Pts
Poor: 47% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7850-$174 49,592 User benchmarks, average bench 19% Sapphire(174B E221) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	22% Poor	Lighting 26 Reflection 29 Parallax 32.8 21% 29.2 fps	MRender 26 Gravity 23 Splatting 34.4 23% 27.8 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 22% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 233GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 15 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 72 69 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5348164	53.1% Above average	Read 276 Write 282 Mixed 249 60% 269 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 32.4 4K Mixed 16.4 77% 24.8 MB/s	DQ Read 30.9 DQ Write 51.5 DQ Mixed 17.3 20% 33.2 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 174GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 15 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 68 66 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 178933231	52.4% Above average	Read 275 Write 282 Mixed 241 59% 266 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 31.6 4K Mixed 16.5 75% 24.2 MB/s	DQ Read 28.4 DQ Write 51.8 DQ Mixed 13.8 18% 31.3 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 52.4% Great: 124%
Hitachi HCT721050SLA380 500GB 146 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 150GB free Firmware: ST3OA31E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 142 142 30083973423 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3926 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 19579 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3878 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4329 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4329 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 236224315424 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	45.7% Average	Read 77.6 Write 81.5 Mixed 77.6 59% 78.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.35 85% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 61%
Hitachi HDT725025VLA380 250GB-$132 6,580 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 145GB free Firmware: V5DOA7EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 2 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 138 138 25787695373 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2499 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7241 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1118 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2656 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2656 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 249109020706 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 107	27.8% Poor	Read 43.1 Write 53.3 Mixed 48.1 36% 48.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.29 79% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 27.8% Great: 35%
Samsung D3 Station 2TB 2,805 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 891GB free, PID 6123 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	63.4% Good	Read 91.5 Write 119 Mixed 117 147% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 7.78 4K Mixed 0.55 286% 3.03 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 80%
Kingston DataTraveler 101 G2 USB 2.0 8GB-$6 2,874 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 4GB free, PID 1642 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	2.65% Terrible	Read 10.6 Write 2.07 Mixed 3.51 5% 5.41 MB/s	4K Read 2.65 4K Write 0.008 4K Mixed 0.009 10% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 2.65% Great: 7%

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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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CPU	GPU	SSD
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 $182	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

Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results

PC Performing as expected (40th percentile)

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PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)