Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 26% Raft	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 63.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	36.6% 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	68.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	28GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 28GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	24.8 GB free of 28 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130408
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 22 '17 at 18:32
Run Duration	265 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-9370-$194 9,054 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	63.4% Good	Memory 86.1 1-Core 59.5 2-Core 118 56% 87.9 Pts	4-Core 221 8-Core 373 36% 297 Pts	64-Core 373 23% 373 Pts
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 70%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280-$185 33,175 User benchmarks, average bench 30% Gigabyte(1458 229A) 3GB CLim: 1072 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 17.11.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	36.6% Below average	Lighting 47.8 Reflection 34.7 Parallax 57.9 39% 46.8 fps	MRender 32.2 Gravity 40.2 Splatting 42.9 32% 38.4 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 36.6% Great: 34%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme Pro 960GB-$300 2,857 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 66GB free (System drive) Firmware: X212T0RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 3196 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 419 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 55 (A8) Unknown 100 100 61 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1366 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 10 (AE) Unknown 100 100 101 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 44 188980068387 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 33 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 10245 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7509 (F2) Unknown 253 253 15325 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	68.6% Good	Read 385 Write 379 Mixed 197 71% 320 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 56 4K Mixed 17 93% 33.5 MB/s	DQ Read 30.9 DQ Write 89.8 DQ Mixed 16.8 25% 45.8 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 114%
Adata S510 120GB 690 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 4GB free Firmware: 5.0.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 -68685116986835 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3163 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 829 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 56 90197983267 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21801 (EA) Unknown 0 0 18244 (F1) Unknown 0 0 18244 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12766	43.4% Average	Read 166 Write 159 Mixed 101 32% 142 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 64.4 4K Mixed 11.4 84% 33 MB/s	DQ Read 31.5 DQ Write 98.5 DQ Mixed 11.6 24% 47.2 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 79%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 878GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 176 6091 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 243 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 447 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 72 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 594 (C2) HDA temperature 122 111 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	79.5% Very good	Read 138 Write 139 Mixed 78.9 88% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.67 4K Mixed 0.26 113% 1.25 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 88%
Toshiba X300 5TB-$125 12,743 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 330GB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8626 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1667 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 2272 (0A) Spinup retry count 133 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 453 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 66 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2140 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 253404512290 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 97 97 1273 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 565 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	61.7% Good	Read 98.2 Write 117 Mixed 18.5 56% 77.8 MB/s	4K Read 1.17 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.25 113% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 109%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 84GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 181 5850 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 867 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1249 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 231 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2192 (C2) HDA temperature 121 108 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	42.5% Average	Read 75.3 Write 72.3 Mixed 56.6 51% 68.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.27 90% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4 KHX1600C10D3/ 9905403-559.A KHX1600C10D3/ 28GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 667, 667, 667, 667 MHz 4096, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	43.1% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 14.3 44% 15.3 GB/s	SC Read 9.2 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 11.1 27% 9.53 GB/s	Latency 71.2 56% 71.2 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 44%

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

Surfboard

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

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	940x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	854x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	395x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	279x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	158x

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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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $366

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) $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