Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Graphics	6.63% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	65.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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.

Very high background CPU (60%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

9 years ago, 9 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130408
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '15 at 04:34
Run Duration	209 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	60%

PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6350 Six-Core-$100 29,222 User benchmarks, average bench 59% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 64.3 2-Core 131 44% 97.8 Pts	4-Core 253 8-Core 353 38% 303 Pts	64-Core 353 22% 353 Pts
Poor: 48% Great: 66%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 240 58,337 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 226B) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 14.301.1006.0 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	6.63% Terrible	Lighting 7.97 Reflection 10.2 Parallax 10.2 6% 9.47 fps	MRender 8.19 Gravity 7.67 Splatting 9.13 7% 8.33 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.63% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: 521A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 60657561 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 113524575569280 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 341 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 14 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 40 47247261727 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 47247261727 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 60657561 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 60657561 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 60657561 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3438 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4996 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4996 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2007	65.3% Good	Read 456 Write 113 Mixed 70.8 46% 213 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 84.2 4K Mixed 19 109% 43.3 MB/s	DQ Read 195 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 50.1 74% 139 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 269GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 100 165802952 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 846 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2000580 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1387 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 338 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 50 521994271 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7790 (C2) HDA temperature 31 50 42949672991 (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 43714177139176 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3716674022 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4744322376	87.1% Excellent	Read 150 Write 153 Mixed 150 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.29 93% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 112%
USB DISK 2.0 16GB 42 User benchmarks, average bench 8% 1GB free, PID 3800 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	6.48% Terrible	Read 26.2 Write 7.58 Mixed 14.4 18% 16.1 MB/s	4K Read 3.41 4K Write 0.07 4K Mixed 0.04 16% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.48% Great: 12%

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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	854x
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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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