Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 33% Sail boat	Desktop 65% Battle cruiser	Workstation 27% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 59.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	51.3% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	50.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	16.5 GB free of 24 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130128
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 15 '17 at 18:14
Run Duration	324 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	59.9% Above average	Memory 79.5 1-Core 54.9 2-Core 115 52% 83.3 Pts	4-Core 219 8-Core 320 34% 270 Pts	64-Core 380 24% 380 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367A) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	51.3% Above average	Lighting 65.6 Reflection 63.4 Parallax 62.5 54% 63.8 fps	MRender 65.2 Gravity 59.3 Splatting 51.3 47% 58.6 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 9790680 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 -17686675307835 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 769 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 230 (B1) Unknown 0 0 94 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 43 49 47247851563 (C2) HDA temperature 43 49 47247851563 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9790680 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9790680 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9790680 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 27098 (EA) Unknown 0 0 24856 (F1) Unknown 0 0 24856 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19126 (F4) Unknown 92 92 196739314	50.9% Above average	Read 432 Write 105 Mixed 180 52% 239 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 59.7 4K Mixed 13.3 74% 29.9 MB/s	DQ Read 131 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 43.6 55% 97.8 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 73%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 5GB free Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 210 100 4562 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 388 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7270 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 7322 (A9) Unknown 100 100 51 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7272 (AE) Unknown 100 100 92 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 48 100 274877906996 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 243 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1651334 (F1) Unknown 253 253 13422 (F2) Unknown 253 253 14359	68.9% Good	Read 402 Write 405 Mixed 449 94% 419 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 56.3 4K Mixed 5.66 77% 29.5 MB/s	DQ Read 163 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 30.5 56% 111 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 86%
Samsung HD502HI 500GB-$154 24,344 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 41GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 14 1600 (03) Spinup time 92 92 3200 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2272 (05) Reallocated sector count 95 95 73 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 1 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 57149 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2025 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 46 221 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 4082 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 47 589496355 (C2) HDA temperature 64 46 606208036 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 430374 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 73 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 68 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 99 171 (C8) Write error rate 100 97 17 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	49.1% Average	Read 86.8 Write 84.3 Mixed 87.5 65% 86.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.29 78% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 31GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 139497352 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1240 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 113425236 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 30854 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1179 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 7422 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 59 47 690421801 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 468 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 34 34 133683 (C2) HDA temperature 41 53 42949673001 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 154 371544 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 139221364920834 (F1) Unknown 100 253 58852275560 (F2) Unknown 100 253 56072643475	56.3% Above average	Read 93 Write 103 Mixed 93.9 73% 96.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 0.67 4K Mixed 0.33 71% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 112%
SMI Reader 8GB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 8% 7GB free, PID 6300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	9.23% Terrible	Read 19.8 Write 5.69 Mixed 8.12 12% 11.2 MB/s	4K Read 4.17 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 1.08 98% 2.2 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 9.23% Great: 12%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown Kingston KHX1866C10D3/ Kingston KHX1866C10D3/ 24GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 667, 933, 933 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	40% Average	MC Read 15.5 MC Write 13.8 MC Mixed 13.9 41% 14.4 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 8.2 24% 8.23 GB/s	Latency 81.5 49% 81.5 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 40% Great: 46%

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 - $300

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	109x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	62x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	46x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	23x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	23x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	14x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	94x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	93x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	61x

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Total price: $517

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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