Asrock 970 Extreme3 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 26% Raft	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 72%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	31% 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	78.8% 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.

Motherboard	Asrock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160201
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 19 '16 at 00:02
Run Duration	133 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320E-$87 33,199 User benchmarks, average bench 58% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72% Very good	Memory 91 1-Core 74.3 2-Core 148 64% 104 Pts	4-Core 288 8-Core 464 46% 376 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 950-$100 111,509 User benchmarks, average bench 26% EVGA(3842 2951) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7270 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	31% Below average	Lighting 39.5 Reflection 35.8 Parallax 32.3 32% 35.9 fps	MRender 36.7 Gravity 34.6 Splatting 34.5 29% 35.3 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 31% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 144GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 248 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 30 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 62 59 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 5 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 820615464	78.8% Very good	Read 492 Write 383 Mixed 401 95% 425 MB/s	4K Read 35.5 4K Write 59.2 4K Mixed 21.6 113% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 38.7 DQ Write 68.3 DQ Mixed 21.2 25% 42.7 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 124%
Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 2TB-$270 9,828 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2TB free Firmware: ML6OAA10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 34359738368 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 137440591902 (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	70.9% Very good	Read 121 Write 126 Mixed 122 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.42 112% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 73%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 175 3675 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 85 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12169 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 85 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 62 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1933 (C2) HDA temperature 116 103 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	89% Excellent	Read 166 Write 144 Mixed 136 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.27 111% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5273CH0-CH9 F3-14900CL9-4GBXL F3-14900CL9-4GBXL 12GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	46.1% Average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 15.7 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 12.2 30% 10.4 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 46%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asrock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 - $300

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	157x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8320AMD $125Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	65x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	43x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	24x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	23x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	23x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	17x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	10x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	13x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	11x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	9x

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Total price: $517

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16