Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 67.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	63.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	64.9% 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.

High background CPU (30%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170607
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 15 '21 at 20:51
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	HRV-User
Background CPU	30%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8300-$168 49,767 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	67.6% Good	Memory 87.4 1-Core 76.3 2-Core 145 63% 103 Pts	4-Core 259 8-Core 479 44% 369 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 371A) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2127 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 461.40 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.9% Good	Lighting 79.9 Reflection 81.6 Parallax 75.8 65% 79.1 fps	MRender 73.6 Gravity 79.1 Splatting 73.5 62% 75.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Blast 120GB 4,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM12.2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 211 81 90 91 73 92 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	64.9% Good	Read 459 Write 432 Mixed 338 SusWrite 106 75% 334 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 42.5 4K Mixed 26.2 91% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 248 DQ Mixed 164 151% 232 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 95%
Microsoft Storage Space Device 923GB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 670GB free Firmware: 0.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 289 65 5.6 6.2 6.1 5.9 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	65.9% Good	Read 480 Write 392 Mixed 390 SusWrite 63 74% 331 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 71.9 4K Mixed 25.6 112% 41.5 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 36.3 75% 150 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 357GB free Firmware: JC4B SusWrite @10s intervals: 113 125 125 125 126 123 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	69.9% Good	Read 121 Write 112 Mixed 65.8 SusWrite 123 77% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 1 174% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 70%

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 2133 MHz clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	53% Above average	MC Read 23.3 MC Write 16.1 MC Mixed 18 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.9 SC Write 9.6 SC Mixed 13.9 34% 11.8 GB/s	Latency 70.1 57% 70.1 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 72%

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

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Gaming 23%

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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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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