Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 46% Yacht	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (26th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 74 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 32.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	28.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	65.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (65%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141031
Uptime	13 Days
Run Date	Apr 02 '17 at 23:01
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	65%

PC Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-4350-$57 11,995 User benchmarks, average bench 57% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	32.6% Below average	Memory 41.9 1-Core 59.1 2-Core 65 35% 55.3 Pts	4-Core 132 8-Core 157 19% 144 Pts	64-Core 185 12% 185 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 32.6% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2974) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 376.53 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	28.2% Poor	Lighting 35 Reflection 41.5 Parallax 22.7 28% 33.1 fps	MRender 29.1 Gravity 52.8 Splatting 22.6 28% 34.9 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 28.2% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X300 128GB-$170 2,748 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: X3510000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4786 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 863 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4419880489896 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 61 (A9) Unknown 100 100 168 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 19 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 53 52 223339544623 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8959352113190 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4378 (EA) Unknown 100 100 13121 (F1) Unknown 253 253 11201 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3599 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	65.6% Good	Read 478 Write 429 Mixed 398 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 14.5 4K Write 33.9 4K Mixed 14.9 59% 21.1 MB/s	DQ Read 28.1 DQ Write 74.9 DQ Mixed 15.4 22% 39.5 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 92%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$28 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 723GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 74 (03) Spinup time 124 124 12897026232 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2122 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 113 113 35 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3439 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 861 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2122 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2122 (C2) HDA temperature 136 136 206159740972 (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	88.7% Excellent	Read 157 Write 152 Mixed 141 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.19 84% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown Micron 16JTF51264AZ- 12GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 800, 800, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	30.9% Below average	MC Read 13.2 MC Write 10 MC Mixed 11.4 33% 11.5 GB/s	SC Read 7.6 SC Write 6 SC Mixed 7.5 20% 7.03 GB/s	Latency 194 21% 194 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 30.9% Great: 72%

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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	946x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	856x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	281x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	181x
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 $79Bench 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	62x

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Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16