Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 32% Sail boat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 26% Raft


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 72.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	40.3% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	39% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 17 '19 at 13:11
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	SRB-User
Background CPU	27%

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, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.6% Very good	Memory 92.3 1-Core 74.5 2-Core 147 64% 105 Pts	4-Core 287 8-Core 429 44% 358 Pts	64-Core 428 26% 428 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Gigabyte(1458 3001) CLim: 1100 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 19.5.1 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	40.3% Average	Lighting 52.3 Reflection 35 Parallax 64.5 43% 50.6 fps	MRender 32.9 Gravity 53.8 Splatting 43.4 36% 43.4 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 40.3% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Biostar S100-240GB PLUS 240GB 203 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 60GB free (System drive) Firmware: V3.39 SusWrite @10s intervals: 62 71 70 77 138 280 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	39% Below average	Read 316 Write 129 Mixed 7.8 SusWrite 116 31% 142 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 17 4K Mixed 9.8 52% 15.6 MB/s	DQ Read 90.6 DQ Write 91.1 DQ Mixed 16.8 33% 66.2 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 39% Great: 80%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$30 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 122GB free Firmware: ST6OA3AA SusWrite @10s intervals: 79 78 78 77 79 77 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	45.3% Average	Read 79.7 Write 76.7 Mixed 42.7 SusWrite 77.9 51% 69.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.9 156% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 303 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	49.9% Average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 15.3 MC Mixed 17.7 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 10.9 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 12.5 31% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 110%

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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%

Surfboard

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 $45	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