Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 50% Yacht	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 50.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	3.81% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	3.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	68.1 Days
Run Date	May 11 '18 at 16:50
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-4300-$73 55,454 User benchmarks, average bench 52% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	50.8% Above average	Memory 69.9 1-Core 62.5 2-Core 117 51% 83 Pts	4-Core 184 8-Core 191 25% 188 Pts	64-Core 202 12% 202 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 710 187,161 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8576) 1GB CLim: 954 MHz, MLim: 450 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 359.21 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	3.81% Terrible	Lighting 4.63 Reflection 4.27 Parallax 4.28 4% 4.39 fps	MRender 4.57 Gravity 2.93 Splatting 6.13 4% 4.55 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.81% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 86GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 729 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 602 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 67 (A3) Unknown 100 100 24 (A4) Unknown 100 100 26708 (A5) Unknown 100 100 88 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 23 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 108 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 47943 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 118261 (F2) Unknown 100 100 136475 (F5) Unknown 100 100 213664	86.2% Excellent	Read 489 Write 354 Mixed 412 93% 419 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 76.7 4K Mixed 31 118% 44.3 MB/s	DQ Read 194 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 72.3 88% 155 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 103%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 735GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 24790216 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1866 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 4536644272 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18151 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 52 604700705 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 299 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27217 (C2) HDA temperature 33 48 34359738401 (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 -5351529234303 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24987301656 (F2) Unknown 100 253 27887300504	69.1% Good	Read 122 Write 120 Mixed 88 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.09 4K Write 0.14 4K Mixed 0.09 16% 0.11 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 4,751 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	28.5% Poor	MC Read 10.3 MC Write 9.2 MC Mixed 9.3 27% 9.6 GB/s	SC Read 8 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 8.9 24% 8.3 GB/s	Latency 102 39% 102 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 28.5% Great: 53%

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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	939x
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	157x

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 $184	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) $35	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