Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

Performance Results


Gaming 45% Yacht	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 70%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	61.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	63.3% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	4.8 Days
Run Date	Apr 08 '18 at 23:45
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70% Good	Memory 88.7 1-Core 74.5 2-Core 149 63% 104 Pts	4-Core 278 8-Core 459 45% 369 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 18.3.4 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	61.8% Good	Lighting 79.4 Reflection 56.1 Parallax 104 65% 79.7 fps	MRender 55 Gravity 74.5 Splatting 73.1 56% 67.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 240GB-$196 15,660 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 98GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFZ12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2606 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3076 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 151 151 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 728 (C2) HDA temperature 69 63 158914641951 (F1) Unknown 100 100 232545	63.3% Good	Read 507 Write 332 Mixed 343 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 19.2 4K Write 35.1 4K Mixed 9.72 60% 21.4 MB/s	DQ Read 149 DQ Write 89.6 DQ Mixed 46.6 54% 95.2 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 95%
Seagate ST1500DM003-9YN16G 1.5TB 5,186 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 529GB free Firmware: HP16 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 32986208 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6384 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 392273408 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11383 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5226 (B4) Unknown 100 100 713202065 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032838 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 68 59 555024416 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 594 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 20461 (C2) HDA temperature 32 41 55834574880 (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 200 200 0	57% Above average	Read 123 Write 76.3 Mixed 32.6 56% 77.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.26 70% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F641GU67G1600 2x8GB 33 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	48.9% Average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 17.4 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 13.2 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 68.8 58% 68.8 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 49%

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Gaming 20%

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Desktop 64%

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Workstation 15%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P - $248

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	196x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	162x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	47x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	41x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	29x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	16x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	20x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	17x
F3 DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 41%, 3,080 samples	11x

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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $392

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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