Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Sail boat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 25% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 69.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	37.9% 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	47.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130408
Uptime	3.6 Days
Run Date	Oct 02 '17 at 14:27
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.9% Good	Memory 94.8 1-Core 73.1 2-Core 135 64% 101 Pts	4-Core 245 8-Core 432 41% 338 Pts	64-Core 435 27% 435 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280-$185 33,175 User benchmarks, average bench 30% Sapphire(174B A003) CLim: 1110 MHz, MLim: 1430 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 16.6 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	37.9% Below average	Lighting 49.3 Reflection 35.7 Parallax 61 40% 48.7 fps	MRender 33.8 Gravity 42.8 Splatting 44.1 34% 40.2 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 37.9% Great: 34%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 230 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3638 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1064 (64) Unknown 100 100 4705024 (65) Unknown 100 100 606944 (AA) Unknown 100 100 1 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 195 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 96 96 1400 (B2) Unknown 100 100 1 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1158 (B7) Unknown 99 99 14 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 24 100 163209412632 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 230 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 230 (E7) Temperature 97 97 3 (E9) Unknown 100 100 8244 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3199 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5935 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6601 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 230	47.9% Average	Read 376 Write 238 Mixed 131 54% 248 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 27.3 4K Mixed 7.3 57% 18.9 MB/s	DQ Read 23.4 DQ Write 68.9 DQ Mixed 23.8 25% 38.7 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 466GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 104941320 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4714 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 135872207 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7911 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2437 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 66 437452826 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 175 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19292 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 34359738394 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 53906134536962 (F1) Unknown 100 253 28114886301 (F2) Unknown 100 253 122069646410	95.5% Outstanding	Read 165 Write 168 Mixed 156 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.24 102% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 112%
FUJITSU MHY2250BH 250GB 88GB free, PID 0621 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	15.5% Very poor	Read 34.7 Write 33.6 Mixed 28 41% 32.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.21 42% 0.54 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1600 C7 2x4GB 176 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	51.3% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 18.2 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.1 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 13.8 32% 11.3 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 56%

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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	855x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 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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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $37
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