Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 62% Destroyer	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 57%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	18.8% 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)
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	20.3 GB free of 24 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141007
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Nov 21 '17 at 00:08
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-4100-$110 32,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	57% Above average	Memory 81.7 1-Core 65.2 2-Core 119 56% 88.8 Pts	4-Core 190 8-Core 188 25% 189 Pts	64-Core 192 12% 192 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 58%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 750-Ti-$92 309,423 User benchmarks, average bench 17% Gigabyte(1458 36D1) CLim: 1333 MHz, MLim: 1350 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	18.8% Very poor	Lighting 23.8 Reflection 17.4 Parallax 20.8 19% 20.7 fps	MRender 25.5 Gravity 24 Splatting 17.3 18% 22.3 fps
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 18.8% Great: 19%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 141GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1592 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 262 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 66 52 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 67 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5507506010
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 197GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 125 0 (03) Spinup time 189 176 5516 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10255 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 1 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21491 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1378 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1074 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 185 185 46913 (C2) HDA temperature 124 98 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 41 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 41 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 32	29.1% Poor	Read 51.8 Write 49.1 Mixed 51.3 38% 50.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.21 73% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 29.1% Great: 63%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 101GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 190100684 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2436 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 612349762 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 45372 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 464 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 949 (BE) vendor-specific 73 51 454361115 (C2) HDA temperature 27 49 8589934619 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 21 190100684 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	50.9% Above average	Read 91.5 Write 85.9 Mixed 70.4 62% 82.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.34 77% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 60%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 83GB free Firmware: CR100-12 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 93 1 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7360 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8514 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 60658 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3810 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 194317 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 16585882 (BC) Unknown 99 99 125 (BE) vendor-specific 76 48 24 (C2) HDA temperature 163 82 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 194317 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 89 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 11 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 53 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 114	33.2% Below average	Read 58.2 Write 57.4 Mixed 46.9 41% 54.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.3 71% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 33.2% Great: 44%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 59GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 89 216429318 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 106368260 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 33602 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 37 8098 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1366 (BC) Unknown 100 100 6 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 407 (BE) vendor-specific 73 56 454361115 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 64424509467 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 34 216429318 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	42.6% Average	Read 79.5 Write 68.8 Mixed 67.3 54% 71.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.38 87% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 42.6% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1866C10D3/ KHX1600C10D3/ KHX1866C10D3/ KHX1600C10D3/ 24GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 933, 800, 933, 800 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	42.2% Average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 11.7 MC Mixed 15.3 43% 14.9 GB/s	SC Read 8.3 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 12.4 28% 9.83 GB/s	Latency 77.4 52% 77.4 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 42.2% Great: 68%

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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	939x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	852x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	393x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	278x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	157x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	139x
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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Total price: $366

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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