Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 65%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	20% 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	22GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 22GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	18.2 GB free of 22 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colores, 1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '18 at 21:31
Run Duration	210 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (49^th 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 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	65% Good	Memory 84.5 1-Core 72.6 2-Core 136 60% 97.5 Pts	4-Core 247 8-Core 407 40% 327 Pts	64-Core 445 28% 445 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270-$140 47,409 User benchmarks, average bench 24% XFX(1682 2015) ≥ 4GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 13.251.9001.0 Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	20% Very poor	Lighting 23.6 Reflection 27.8 Parallax 24.7 19% 25.4 fps	MRender 24.6 Gravity 19.6 Splatting 32.1 22% 25.4 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 20% Great: 26%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 240GB-$141 6,458 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 223GB free Firmware: 0C4005T3 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 12960 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 461 (64) Unknown 100 100 10278464 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 194 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 155 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9502 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 44 100 240519086124 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 1 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 4 (E7) Temperature 95 95 5 (EA) Unknown 100 100 38940 (F1) Unknown 100 100 26185 (F2) Unknown 100 100 20167 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 22084	99.2% Outstanding	Read 686 Write 617 Mixed 697 149% 666 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 60.9 4K Mixed 16.1 91% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 18 56% 120 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 159%
AMD 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 239GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 222GB free Firmware: 1.10 Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	69% Good	Read 520 Write 180 Mixed 337 76% 346 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 16.6 106% 47.4 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 61.3 69% 118 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 81%
Seagate Expansion 1TB 60,540 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 142GB free Firmware: 1805 Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	54.5% Above average	Read 94.8 Write 95.1 Mixed 88.3 70% 92.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.31 86% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 66%
Seagate BUP Slim BL 1TB 4,375 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 138GB free Firmware: 0107 Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	38.7% Below average	Read 62.3 Write 72.5 Mixed 59.3 49% 64.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.26 81% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 64%
AMD 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 159GB 26 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 102GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.10 Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	40.1% Average	Read 72.3 Write 67.1 Mixed 79 55% 72.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.5 118% 1 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata Kingston KHX2400C11D3/ Kingston 99U5471-012.A Kingston KHX2400C11D3/ 22GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 667, 800, 667, 800 MHz 2048, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	41% Average	MC Read 15.3 MC Write 13.4 MC Mixed 14.1 41% 14.3 GB/s	SC Read 9 SC Write 8.2 SC Mixed 12.6 28% 9.93 GB/s	Latency 72.6 55% 72.6 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 42%

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	157x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	15x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
A400 120GBKingston $30Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	12x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2x8GBCorsairBench 46%, 237 samples	9x

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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