Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 65% Destroyer


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 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 73.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	109% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	154% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

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Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170607
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 11 '19 at 15:23
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

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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-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.6 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	Memory 93.9 1-Core 80 2-Core 154 67% 109 Pts	4-Core 288 8-Core 435 45% 362 Pts	64-Core 461 29% 461 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2080-$396 316,424 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 2182) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 431.36 Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	109% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 145 Parallax 155 114% 147 fps	MRender 168 Gravity 133 Splatting 104 107% 135 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 134%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$92 455,997 User benchmarks, average bench 310% 634GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXM7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 410 430 507 521 584 586 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	154% Outstanding	Read 1101 Write 741 Mixed 791 SusWrite 506 175% 785 MB/s	4K Read 49 4K Write 85.5 4K Mixed 62.3 199% 65.6 MB/s	DQ Read 434 DQ Write 313 DQ Mixed 389 286% 379 MB/s
Poor: 188% ↑ This bench: 154% Great: 410%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 45GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 287 246 230 223 214 211 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	95.5% Outstanding	Read 459 Write 406 Mixed 376 SusWrite 235 83% 369 MB/s	4K Read 38.2 4K Write 80.2 4K Mixed 49.5 164% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 261 196% 262 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 124%
Toshiba X300 5TB-$125 12,743 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2.5TB free Firmware: FP2A SusWrite @10s intervals: 134 138 135 137 138 135 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 185 Mixed 62.3 SusWrite 136 104% 144 MB/s	4K Read 5.9 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1.2 424% 3.17 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 109%
WD Elements 25A3 6TB 4,829 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 5TB free, PID 25a3 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 158 162 162 164 162 162 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	67.1% Good	Read 163 Write 160 Mixed 118 SusWrite 162 204% 150 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1.1 130% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 2,886 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.5% Above average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 17.1 MC Mixed 18.5 53% 18.6 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 10.5 SC Mixed 13.8 34% 11.8 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 52.5% Great: 73%

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

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA - $299

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	431x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	13x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $588

CPU	GPU	SSD
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 $179	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