Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 51% Yacht	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 48.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	10.7% 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	57% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (88%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	7.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130408
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Nov 11 '16 at 16:40
Run Duration	210 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	88%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6350 Six-Core-$100 29,222 User benchmarks, average bench 59% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	48.4% Average	Memory 74.4 1-Core 40.1 2-Core 75.1 42% 63.2 Pts	4-Core 125 8-Core 169 19% 147 Pts	64-Core 174 11% 174 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 66%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% EVGA(3842 2059) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7570 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	10.7% Very poor	Lighting 11.9 Reflection 13.9 Parallax 8.69 10% 11.5 fps	MRender 17.1 Gravity 12.4 Splatting 16.1 12% 15.2 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 10.7% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY Optima 240GB-$64 788 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 127GB free (System drive) Firmware: N0307A 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3509 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 482 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 85 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 311951 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 14 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 81 (A3) Unknown 100 100 24 (A4) Unknown 100 100 130562 (A5) Unknown 100 100 177 (A6) Unknown 100 100 74 (A7) Unknown 100 100 131 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 421 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 556331 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 17385 (F2) Unknown 100 100 12459	57% Above average	Read 360 Write 279 Mixed 253 66% 297 MB/s	4K Read 21.8 4K Write 47.8 4K Mixed 15.4 78% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 27.8 DQ Write 82.5 DQ Mixed 17.8 24% 42.7 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 98%
WD My Book 1140 2TB 10,094 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 1.5TB free, PID 1140 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	37.2% Below average	Read 87 Write 85.2 Mixed 10.6 70% 60.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.21 74% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata DDR3 1600 2x8GB 853 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	37.8% Below average	MC Read 15.6 MC Write 11.7 MC Mixed 14.6 40% 14 GB/s	SC Read 6.4 SC Write 5.5 SC Mixed 7.6 19% 6.5 GB/s	Latency 91.6 44% 91.6 ns
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 37.8% Great: 53%

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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	940x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	855x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	395x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	279x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
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 $80Bench 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	61x

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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $366

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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