Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 55% Yacht	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 56.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	8.42% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	45.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	9.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141229
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Feb 27 '21 at 02:06
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8120 25,690 User benchmarks, average bench 56% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	56.9% Above average	Memory 80.3 1-Core 43 2-Core 115 50% 79.5 Pts	4-Core 183 8-Core 310 30% 246 Pts	64-Core 318 20% 318 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 63%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5750 12,403 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Gigabyte(1458 21E9) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	8.42% Terrible	Lighting 11.2 Reflection 11.9 Parallax 9.9 9% 11 fps	MRender 9.6 Gravity 8.6 Splatting 7.9 7% 8.7 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 8.42% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB-$76 24,219 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 69 70 72 69 69 68 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	45.5% Average	Read 282 Write 75 Mixed 111 SusWrite 69.4 29% 134 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 38 4K Mixed 26.6 88% 29 MB/s	DQ Read 32.2 DQ Write 76.9 DQ Mixed 35.8 33% 48.3 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB-$33 44,469 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 36GB free Firmware: CC37 SusWrite @10s intervals: 76 71 73 69 70 68 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	57.9% Above average	Read 130 Write 130 Mixed 55.2 SusWrite 71.2 71% 96.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 1 176% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4 KHX1600C9D3/4 KHX1600C9D3/4 KHX1600C9D3/4 16GB 161 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 667, 800, 667, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	30.4% Below average	MC Read 9.8 MC Write 8.9 MC Mixed 10.8 28% 9.83 GB/s	SC Read 8.6 SC Write 9.2 SC Mixed 10.3 27% 9.37 GB/s	Latency 79.9 50% 79.9 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 30.4% Great: 49%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	943x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	855x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	395x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	280x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	159x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	140x
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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Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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