Gigabyte GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 69%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	92.1% 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	51.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	6.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160128
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 21 '17 at 02:13
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^th 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 4.1 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	69% Good	Memory 92.8 1-Core 73.1 2-Core 143 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 251 8-Core 330 37% 291 Pts	64-Core 335 21% 335 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 117 Parallax 110 96% 115 fps	MRender 99.5 Gravity 106 Splatting 105 85% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z320 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1044 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 319 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1447452148422 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 21 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 11 (AE) Unknown 100 100 22 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 29 304942678061 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1013623095532 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1387 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3329 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2172 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3776 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	51.1% Above average	Read 493 Write 124 Mixed 172 57% 263 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 36.5 4K Mixed 6.06 60% 21.4 MB/s	DQ Read 170 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 6.46 46% 107 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 78%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 202GB free Firmware: 05.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 8 (03) Spinup time 142 140 3891 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4266 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12068 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3696 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 295 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3970 (C2) HDA temperature 113 92 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 35 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	65.7% Good	Read 130 Write 99 Mixed 85.7 78% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.33 83% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4GBH1X04F1AA2 2x4GB 94 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	45.4% Average	MC Read 20 MC Write 12.7 MC Mixed 15 45% 15.9 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 11.4 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 49%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 25%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	41x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	17x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	13x

GPU
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	7x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	7x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	7x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	7x
Blue 250GBWD $81Bench 79%, 26,761 samples	3x
SD8SBBU120G1122 120GBSandiskBench 47%, 2,087 samples	3x

RAM
DDR3 2133 2OZ 2x4GBAdataBench 41%, 1,140 samples	6x
BLS4G3D1609DS 2x4GBCrucialBench 43%, 4,102 samples	4x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	3x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $305

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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