Gigabyte GA-970A-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 46% Yacht	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 39.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	13.3% 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	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 (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 (all builds)
Memory	16.9 GB free of 24 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130121
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '17 at 02:30
Run Duration	443 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	49%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	39.1% Below average	Memory 54.9 1-Core 44.8 2-Core 81 38% 60.2 Pts	4-Core 128 8-Core 182 20% 155 Pts	64-Core 195 12% 195 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% XFX(1682 3233) 1GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1125 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	13.3% Very poor	Lighting 16.5 Reflection 16.6 Parallax 24.9 13% 19.3 fps	MRender 13 Gravity 15.3 Splatting 18.3 13% 15.5 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.3% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 443GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7983 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 527 (B1) Unknown 98 1 61 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 59 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22089815966	54.3% Above average	Read 347 Write 353 Mixed 306 75% 335 MB/s	4K Read 16.4 4K Write 23.7 4K Mixed 14 55% 18 MB/s	DQ Read 32.2 DQ Write 59.8 DQ Mixed 19.9 22% 37.3 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 124%
Seagate Momentus XT 7200 RPM 2.5" 750GB-$55 8,365 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 567GB free (System drive) Firmware: SM12 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 172503264 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5481 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 298260038 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17376 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2629 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 253 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 52 504627230 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 308 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 8 8 184248 (C2) HDA temperature 30 48 64424509470 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 21 172503264 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	62% Good	Read 108 Write 108 Mixed 74.7 72% 96.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.19 68% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 63%
JMicron Generic DISK00 4TB 101 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 3.5TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Read 227 Write 237 Mixed 110 236% 191 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.35 77% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 73%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 434GB free, PID 1e40 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples
Poor: 15% Great: 20%
Generic STORAGE DEVICE 8GB 106 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 7GB free, PID 0715 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	3.47% Terrible	Read 13.1 Write 4.81 Mixed 4.29 8% 7.39 MB/s	4K Read 1.97 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.11 12% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.47% Great: 11%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M1A160 CMZ8GX3M1A160 CMZ8GX3M2A160 CMZ8GX3M2A160 24GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 800, 800, 667, 667 MHz 8192, 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	33.7% Below average	MC Read 12.9 MC Write 11.5 MC Mixed 13.3 36% 12.6 GB/s	SC Read 5.9 SC Write 6 SC Mixed 8.8 20% 6.9 GB/s	Latency 143 28% 143 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 33.7% Great: 37%

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 - $248

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	89x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	61x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	52x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	21x
GTX 660Nvidia $170Bench 20%, 123,956 samples	16x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	23x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	11x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	10x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	85x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	73x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	51x

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Total price: $465

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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