Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 15% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


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 70.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	20.9% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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	3.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	3.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 03 '18 at 19:45
Run Duration	249 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.5% Very good	Memory 91.3 1-Core 74 2-Core 146 64% 104 Pts	4-Core 270 8-Core 438 43% 354 Pts	64-Core 437 27% 437 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 750-Ti-$92 309,423 User benchmarks, average bench 17% EVGA(3842 3757) CLim: 1463 MHz, MLim: 1350 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	20.9% Poor	Lighting 26.5 Reflection 19.5 Parallax 23 22% 23 fps	MRender 27.3 Gravity 27.1 Splatting 19.5 20% 24.6 fps
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 20.9% Great: 19%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 250GB (2010)-$37 50,270 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 165GB free (System drive) Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 141 3858 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 474 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26549 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 404 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 418 (C2) HDA temperature 118 99 25 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	71% Very good	Read 126 Write 121 Mixed 72 79% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.23 79% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 70%
Samsung SP1213C 120GB 679 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 15GB free Firmware: SV10 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5568 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 672 (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 92 92 5053764 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 485 (C2) HDA temperature 181 85 19 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3567770 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	22.4% Poor	Read 35.6 Write 42.2 Mixed 33.4 28% 37.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.3 78% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 22.4% Great: 33%
WD My Book Essentials 1TB 3,704 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 263GB free, PID 1110 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	14% Very poor	Read 32.1 Write 21.2 Mixed 15 26% 22.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.25 61% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 14% Great: 20%
WD My Book 320GB 44 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 76GB free, PID null Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	14% Very poor	Read 31.3 Write 20.2 Mixed 15.2 26% 22.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.39 69% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 14% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 1x8GB 4,775 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	34.7% Below average	MC Read 12.9 MC Write 11.3 MC Mixed 9.6 32% 11.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.7 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 10.4 28% 9.87 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 34.7% Great: 35%

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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	949x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	859x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	397x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	283x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	181x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	160x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	140x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	109x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	149x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	68x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 39%, 4,786 samples	62x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $37
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16