Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 48% Yacht	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 53.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	0.9% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	54.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 23 '20 at 17:07
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	PER-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X4 955-$83 41,403 User benchmarks, average bench 51% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	53.3% Above average	Memory 79.6 1-Core 46.6 2-Core 92.2 48% 72.8 Pts	4-Core 159 8-Core 160 21% 160 Pts	64-Core 158 10% 158 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon HD 5400 10,400 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Sapphire(174B 6000) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	0.9% Terrible	Lighting 1 Reflection 1.27 Parallax 1.47 1% 1.25 fps	MRender 1.33 Gravity 0.83 Splatting 1.65 1% 1.27 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 0.9% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 120GB-$30 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 28GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK61K1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 139 98 81 73 37 73 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	54.6% Above average	Read 395 Write 222 Mixed 266 SusWrite 83.5 54% 242 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 48.3 4K Mixed 22.8 90% 31.4 MB/s	DQ Read 238 DQ Write 44.4 DQ Mixed 47.4 59% 110 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 85%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 561GB free Firmware: 2AR20002 SusWrite @10s intervals: 90 90 89 90 91 91 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	51.4% Above average	Read 89 Write 63.2 Mixed 50.8 SusWrite 90.2 54% 73.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.9 147% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 59%

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 800 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	29.5% Poor	MC Read 12.4 MC Write 7.2 MC Mixed 10.8 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 5.8 SC Write 5.7 SC Mixed 7.2 18% 6.23 GB/s	Latency 81.3 49% 81.3 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 29.5% Great: 53%

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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%

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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	855x
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	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 i5-12600K $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 $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