Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 60% Destroyer	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 55.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	18.1% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Very high background CPU (53%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121022
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Sep 10 '17 at 16:37
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	53%

PC Performing as expected (54^th 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% Socket M2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	55.2% Above average	Memory 79.3 1-Core 64.3 2-Core 107 53% 83.6 Pts	4-Core 186 8-Core 166 24% 176 Pts	64-Core 175 11% 175 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 58%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 260X-$120 38,521 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Sapphire(174B E258) CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.8.2 Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	18.1% Very poor	Lighting 20.9 Reflection 23.8 Parallax 29 17% 24.6 fps	MRender 23.7 Gravity 21.9 Splatting 27.5 20% 24.4 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 18.1% Great: 22%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3000DM003-1F216N 3TB 4,050 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 198674440 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11543 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 34520102783 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11441 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 892 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 92 92 8 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065679 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 70 45 4883349534 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 470 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 66418 (C2) HDA temperature 30 55 -140737488355298 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 194 141001 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -127758097180194 (F1) Unknown 100 253 50676350590 (F2) Unknown 100 253 61970387549	72.3% Very good	Read 124 Write 128 Mixed 79.3 82% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.13 52% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 99%
WD Green 500GB (2009)-$23 63,281 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 465GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 189 188 3516 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2735 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11628 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2678 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 119 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 106 106 282560 (C2) HDA temperature 114 103 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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	45.4% Average	Read 79.2 Write 78.7 Mixed 47.6 51% 68.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.16 73% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 54%
WD WD5000AACS-00ZUB0 500GB 19,716 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 176GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 190 0 (03) Spinup time 159 158 5033 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1123 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2234 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 363 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 183 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 30953 (C2) HDA temperature 115 87 32 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	35.9% Below average	Read 61.8 Write 62.9 Mixed 47.3 43% 57.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.27 85% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 35.9% Great: 49%
Toshiba MK1655GSX 160GB-$40 2,046 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 137GB free Firmware: FG011J Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 995 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 17200 (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 87 87 5590 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9753 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 525 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 111 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 69650 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 296353267737 (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 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 30 (DE) Loaded hours 89 89 4732 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 352 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	33.8% Below average	Read 57.9 Write 59.7 Mixed 16.1 32% 44.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.28 70% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	37% Below average	MC Read 14 MC Write 12.3 MC Mixed 12.6 37% 13 GB/s	SC Read 7.5 SC Write 8.1 SC Mixed 10.4 25% 8.67 GB/s	Latency 81.9 49% 81.9 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 37% Great: 61%

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 - $300

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	109x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	62x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	46x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	23x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	23x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	14x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	94x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	93x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	61x

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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $517

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	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