Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 69.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	63.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	58.4% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 02 '17 at 21:28
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-9590-$298 26,109 User benchmarks, average bench 63% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	69.5% Good	Memory 93.8 1-Core 71.7 2-Core 142 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 246 8-Core 437 41% 342 Pts	64-Core 438 27% 438 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2040 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.8% Good	Lighting 81.9 Reflection 76.9 Parallax 78.8 67% 79.2 fps	MRender 67 Gravity 72.4 Splatting 72.9 58% 70.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HFS250G32TND-N1A2A 250GB 5,131 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 141GB free (System drive) Firmware: 30000P10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 814 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 188 (64) Unknown 100 100 1151798 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 99 99 16 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 50 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 3 (B2) Unknown 100 100 33 (B3) Unknown 100 100 235 (B4) Unknown 100 100 6645 (B8) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 0 73017196575 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 253 0 (C4) Reallocation count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 97 80 180 (D4) Unknown 253 253 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 707 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1238 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1368 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 140722	58.4% Above average	Read 367 Write 258 Mixed 209 62% 278 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 42.5 4K Mixed 16.3 88% 29.4 MB/s	DQ Read 30.5 DQ Write 63 DQ Mixed 15.7 21% 36.4 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 106%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free Firmware: MX6O Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 60 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 147 147 34383593887 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 178 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 817 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 173 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 178 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 178 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 176094773282 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 72 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	93.9% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 165 Mixed 164 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.17 84% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D18ADS3 2x8GB 422 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	52.6% Above average	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 15.1 MC Mixed 19 54% 18.8 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 12.4 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 60.3 66% 60.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 54%

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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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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $366

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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