Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 70.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	89.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	64.1% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160516
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	May 31 '17 at 23:38
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Memory 91.8 1-Core 71.9 2-Core 144 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 270 8-Core 416 42% 343 Pts	64-Core 435 27% 435 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 115 Parallax 97.3 94% 109 fps	MRender 98.6 Gravity 102 Splatting 101 82% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 112GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7042 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 84 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4301389894 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 42 (A8) Unknown 100 100 7 (A9) Unknown 100 100 585 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 43 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 65 279173464100 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 85901180956 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1214 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1464 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1337 (F2) Unknown 253 253 970 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	63% Good	Read 380 Write 262 Mixed 278 68% 307 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 41.9 4K Mixed 15.7 86% 28.8 MB/s	DQ Read 175 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 40.3 59% 111 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 108%
SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB-$79 10,862 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: X21200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 12628 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1301 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 45 (A8) Unknown 100 100 196 (A9) Unknown 100 100 537 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 71 (AE) Unknown 100 100 81 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 46 197569347621 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 548 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 18707 (F1) Unknown 253 253 8662 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7697 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	64.1% Good	Read 453 Write 301 Mixed 340 81% 365 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 56.7 4K Mixed 14.3 88% 32.4 MB/s	DQ Read 29.2 DQ Write 61.8 DQ Mixed 14.3 20% 35.1 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.5% Average	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 14.2 MC Mixed 16 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.4 SC Mixed 12.9 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 72%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA - $299

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	431x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	112x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	13x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $588

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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