Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 26% Raft	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 68.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	30.8% 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	77.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (24%). 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	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141021
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '19 at 19:46
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing way above expectations (87^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 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.9% Good	Memory 91.8 1-Core 73 2-Core 135 62% 100 Pts	4-Core 250 8-Core 446 42% 348 Pts	64-Core 449 28% 449 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-$101 269,381 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Asus(1043 85D8) 2GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 1927 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 417.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	30.8% Below average	Lighting 38.8 Reflection 26.7 Parallax 33.2 32% 32.9 fps	MRender 40.4 Gravity 34.7 Splatting 33.6 29% 36.2 fps
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 30.8% Great: 28%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SU650 480GB-$89 17,796 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 210GB free (System drive) Firmware: B180517a SusWrite @10s intervals: 378 406 421 429 410 409 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	77.7% Very good	Read 322 Write 405 Mixed 334 SusWrite 409 83% 368 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 48.6 4K Mixed 28.9 96% 33.1 MB/s	DQ Read 244 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 207 159% 218 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 99%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B1G73DB0- 2x8GB 65 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 800 MHz clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	53.1% Above average	MC Read 22.8 MC Write 15.3 MC Mixed 19.5 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.3 31% 10.9 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 55%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

Surfboard

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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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $40	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