Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 44% Speed boat	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 68.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	63.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	88.3% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161107
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '17 at 04:01
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.9% Good	Memory 81.6 1-Core 80.4 2-Core 158 63% 107 Pts	4-Core 304 8-Core 492 49% 398 Pts	64-Core 493 30% 493 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB; gigabyte gtx 1060 6gb CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2003 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.5% Good	Lighting 80 Reflection 79 Parallax 74.9 65% 78 fps	MRender 72.7 Gravity 73.1 Splatting 73.9 60% 73.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 48GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 449 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 225 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 68 63 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4513389351	88.3% Excellent	Read 488 Write 381 Mixed 399 94% 423 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 58.9 4K Mixed 31.1 127% 42.3 MB/s	DQ Read 172 DQ Write 142 DQ Mixed 21.1 53% 112 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 389GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 103 92 5415135 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14414 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 4638274991 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 13006 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 37 7179 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 4146 (BC) Unknown 100 97 386 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 50 471269404 (C2) HDA temperature 28 50 34359738396 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 21 5415135 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 13 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 13 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 20 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 51793010653523 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2284225919 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3638612532	64.1% Good	Read 117 Write 107 Mixed 102 82% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.56 118% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1333 C9 2x4GB 228 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1066 MHz clocked @ 533 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	25.3% Poor	MC Read 8.3 MC Write 8.1 MC Mixed 7.1 22% 7.83 GB/s	SC Read 7.9 SC Write 7 SC Mixed 8.8 23% 7.9 GB/s	Latency 77.7 52% 77.7 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 25.3% Great: 54%

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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 $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16