Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 69.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	26.6% 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	55.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8
BIOS Date	20130408
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '17 at 23:46
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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 (99^th percentile)	69.4% Good	Memory 89.3 1-Core 73 2-Core 145 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 269 8-Core 432 43% 351 Pts	64-Core 430 27% 430 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 760-$209 161,132 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Gigabyte(1458 3643) 2GB CLim: 1254 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	26.6% Poor	Lighting 31.3 Reflection 28.9 Parallax 35.8 26% 32 fps	MRender 38.4 Gravity 36.4 Splatting 31.9 29% 35.6 fps
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 26.6% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$100 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 139GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3365 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1541 (B1) Unknown 98 98 21 (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 33 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 74 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12361591952	55.7% Above average	Read 353 Write 249 Mixed 251 63% 284 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 38.9 4K Mixed 16.4 82% 27.3 MB/s	DQ Read 35.1 DQ Write 60.7 DQ Mixed 17.3 22% 37.7 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 118%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 654GB free Firmware: 2BA30001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 92 91 2490 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 852 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1591 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 672 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C2) HDA temperature 64 41 253403922460 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 190 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 3 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 817	54.5% Above average	Read 93.6 Write 96.7 Mixed 72.8 66% 87.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 0.76 4K Mixed 0.21 58% 0.49 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 59%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 223GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 76 76 7960 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5011 (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 98 98 8897 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3993 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 34 538181664 (C2) HDA temperature 65 33 3174569345059 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 344880 (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 100 98 187 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	47.6% Average	Read 73 Write 92.8 Mixed 65 58% 76.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.48 109% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 62%
Inateck 250GB 69 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 39GB free, PID 1066 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	198% Outstanding	Read 211 Write 196 Mixed 187 252% 198 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 38.4 4K Mixed 19.9 2,080% 28.1 MB/s	DQ Read 29.9 DQ Write 52.7 DQ Mixed 20.2 2,594% 34.3 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 198% Great: 198%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 4x8GB 45 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	48.7% Average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 15.2 MC Mixed 17.2 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 12.8 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 68.1 59% 68.1 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 106%

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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	956x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	865x
FX-8320AMD $153Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	403x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	284x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	181x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	163x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	142x
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	150x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	69x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 39%, 4,786 samples	63x

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