Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 65% Battle cruiser	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 60.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	86.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	50.4% 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 (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 16 '17 at 16:24
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	17%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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 X6 1090T-$240 23,506 User benchmarks, average bench 57% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	60.6% Good	Memory 86.8 1-Core 49.8 2-Core 92.5 51% 76.4 Pts	4-Core 189 8-Core 274 29% 231 Pts	64-Core 283 18% 283 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 114 Parallax 106 88% 109 fps	MRender 98.1 Gravity 103 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LS 120GB-$98 9,315 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: S8FM06.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 30 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11136 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1164 (A2) Unknown 100 100 128849018946 (AA) Unknown 100 100 218 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9502988 (AE) Unknown 100 100 21 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 95 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10430 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8415	50.4% Above average	Read 488 Write 192 Mixed 257 68% 313 MB/s	4K Read 16.3 4K Write 31.1 4K Mixed 7.89 51% 18.4 MB/s	DQ Read 16.7 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 7.78 32% 66.7 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 84%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 110GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 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 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 69 8854 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2769 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17338 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1981 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 10 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 57 184684118043 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 3 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2779	77.9% Very good	Read 129 Write 143 Mixed 136 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 0.64 159% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 2,734 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	33.4% Below average	MC Read 14.7 MC Write 6.6 MC Mixed 13.1 33% 11.5 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 6.3 SC Mixed 8.3 20% 7.07 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 33.4% Great: 97%

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

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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	855x
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	159x

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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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $366

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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