Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	91.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	60.5% 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.

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Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160816
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Oct 27 '16 at 04:47
Run Duration	271 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^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% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 89.8 1-Core 69.9 2-Core 153 63% 104 Pts	4-Core 283 8-Core 488 47% 386 Pts	64-Core 495 31% 495 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7563 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.3% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 120 Parallax 101 95% 113 fps	MRender 98.6 Gravity 104 Splatting 103 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 240GB-$73 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 160GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th 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 3605 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 527 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 85 (AE) Unknown 100 100 116 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 57 184683593758 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 19026239720 (F7) Unknown 100 100 26822502 (F8) Unknown 100 100 760295945	60.5% Good	Read 474 Write 255 Mixed 339 79% 356 MB/s	4K Read 15.9 4K Write 32 4K Mixed 21.2 68% 23.1 MB/s	DQ Read 16.7 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 49.3 54% 84.2 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 91%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 82GB free Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	67.7% Good	Read 164 Write 193 Mixed 328 52% 228 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 80.4 4K Mixed 37.4 130% 48.1 MB/s	DQ Read 223 DQ Write 175 DQ Mixed 92.9 98% 164 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 67.7% Great: 157%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16JTF1G64AZ-1G6E1 CT102464BA160B.C16 16GB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	47.7% Average	MC Read 19.3 MC Write 15.1 MC Mixed 16.3 48% 16.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.1 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 12.8 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 48%

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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 $75Bench 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 $254	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 $163	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 $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16