Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 29% Raft	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 25% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 72.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	34.4% 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	148% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170607
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 10 '18 at 23:31
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.8% Very good	Memory 94.6 1-Core 74.4 2-Core 146 65% 105 Pts	4-Core 277 8-Core 451 45% 364 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 380-$200 83,027 User benchmarks, average bench 33% MSI(1462 2015) CLim: 980 MHz, MLim: 1425 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.10.2 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	34.4% Below average	Lighting 43.7 Reflection 49 Parallax 57.4 36% 50 fps	MRender 47.1 Gravity 38.1 Splatting 34.5 32% 39.9 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 34.4% Great: 35%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba OCZ RD400 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$4 3,426 User benchmarks, average bench 174% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: 57CZ Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	148% Outstanding	Read 1,274 Write 911 Mixed 1,052 240% 1,079 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 83.7 4K Mixed 26.6 128% 47.6 MB/s	DQ Read 34.9 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 25.8 32% 54.2 MB/s
Poor: 122% ↑ This bench: 148% Great: 219%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 198 0 (03) Spinup time 172 169 2400 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1201 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4009 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 785 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 442 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1278 (C2) HDA temperature 108 96 35 (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 33 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	93.5% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 159 Mixed 141 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 1.35 4K Write 0.64 4K Mixed 0.32 103% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 687GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 66540403 (03) Spinup time 98 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 75 75 25979 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 496132272 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19238 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 88 88 12853 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 8590131218 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 64 61 639893540 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 42949672996 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 22 66540403 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -73547019926006 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2883779848 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2108469245	65.2% Good	Read 115 Write 112 Mixed 103 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.35 97% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT4G3D1608ET3LX0. 4x4GB 1,102 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.3% Above average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 15.9 MC Mixed 17.9 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 13.2 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 58.2 69% 58.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 65%

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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 $47Bench 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