Asrock 970 Extreme3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 3% Tree trunk	Desktop 52% Yacht	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 57.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	9.15% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock 970 Extreme3 (all builds)
Memory	2.6 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20130731
Uptime	9.9 Days
Run Date	Oct 11 '16 at 18:27
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon II X4 640-$70 18,839 User benchmarks, average bench 45% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	57.3% Above average	Memory 80 1-Core 50.8 2-Core 101 50% 77.4 Pts	4-Core 203 8-Core 202 27% 202 Pts	64-Core 203 13% 203 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 53%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6870 25,443 User benchmarks, average bench 15% Gigabyte(1458 21FA) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	9.15% Terrible	Lighting 7.6 Reflection 10.3 Parallax 5.69 6% 7.87 fps	MRender 14.1 Gravity 17 Splatting 21.7 15% 17.6 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 9.15% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3160811AS 160GB-$45 4,832 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 93 66197115 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 681 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 25979879681 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7600 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 859 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 51 571867167 (C2) HDA temperature 31 49 38654705695 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 56 46 203536907 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	29.8% Poor	Read 51.6 Write 52.2 Mixed 51.4 39% 51.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.31 71% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 29.8% Great: 40%
Generic- Compact Flash 64GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 60GB free, PID null Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	6.11% Terrible	Read 19.7 Write 11.5 Mixed 8.76 15% 13.3 MB/s	4K Read 3.1 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.13 16% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 6.11% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x2GB 446,702 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 2 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	34.4% Below average	MC Read 15.1 MC Write 7.4 MC Mixed 12.9 34% 11.8 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 7.5 SC Mixed 10 25% 8.67 GB/s	Latency 80.5 50% 80.5 ns
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 34.4% Great: 44%

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

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asrock 970 Extreme3 - $82

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	40x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	39x
FX-8120AMDBench 56%, 25,690 samples	22x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	20x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	14x
HD 7850AMD $174Bench 19%, 49,592 samples	9x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	7x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	7x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	11x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	8x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	6x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $370

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16