Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX

Performance Results


Gaming 25% Surfboard	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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. 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 61.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	35.7% 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	73.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX (all builds)
Memory	7.9 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170713
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 08 '17 at 02:22
Run Duration	291 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$90 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	61.2% Good	Memory 83.6 1-Core 72.4 2-Core 129 59% 95 Pts	4-Core 214 8-Core 291 32% 253 Pts	64-Core 295 18% 295 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$59 946,701 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Gigabyte(1458 3733) CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	35.7% Below average	Lighting 46.4 Reflection 31.3 Parallax 43 38% 40.2 fps	MRender 38.2 Gravity 41.6 Splatting 36.6 32% 38.8 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 35.7% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 480GB-$81 9,168 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 202GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7701 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1024 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 61 (AE) Unknown 100 100 234 (B4) Unknown 0 0 8217 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 56 188978561052 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 25680975509 (F7) Unknown 100 100 852808965 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1119870860	73.4% Very good	Read 467 Write 396 Mixed 440 97% 434 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 27.3 4K Mixed 23.3 68% 22 MB/s	DQ Read 239 DQ Write 169 DQ Mixed 57.6 83% 155 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 296GB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 88 235873392 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1593 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 4333754901 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 24029 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1583 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 251 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 59 538378272 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 317 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 780479 (C2) HDA temperature 32 41 68719476768 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 11940009097985 (F1) Unknown 100 253 74467169890 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3597787901334
Poor: 51% Great: 114%
WD WD10EADX-00TDHB0 1TB 12,976 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 289GB free Firmware: 77.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 200 186 5966 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4515 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12546 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4502 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1030 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 30896 (C2) HDA temperature 118 97 29 (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 15 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	50.3% Above average	Read 86.8 Write 88.2 Mixed 78.7 64% 84.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.34 94% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 57%
Seagate ST32000542AS 2TB-$100 19,960 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 258GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 99374600 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1850 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 54 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 4374673171 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 29860 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1829 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 21475164166 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 504692766 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 60129542174 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 24 99374600 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -113236812724436 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1254769053 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2623151044	33.1% Below average	Read 55.8 Write 59.2 Mixed 56.8 43% 57.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.26 76% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 33.1% Great: 61%
TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 3TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2TB free, PID 2567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	65.1% Good	Read 168 Write 159 Mixed 18.7 132% 115 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.19 74% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 65%
HGST HDN 724030ALE640 3TB 723GB free, PID 2567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	54.3% Above average	Read 111 Write 149 Mixed 103 160% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.21 70% 0.84 MB/s

WDC WD10 EAVS-00D7B0 1TB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 408GB free, PID ce17 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	17.1% Very poor	Read 32.2 Write 28.7 Mixed 23.7 35% 28.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 17.1% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4 F3-12800CL9-4 Corsair CMX4GX3M2A160 Corsair CMX4GX3M2A160 12GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 800, 800, 667, 667 MHz 4096, 4096, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	38.6% Below average	MC Read 15.1 MC Write 11.8 MC Mixed 12.9 38% 13.3 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 7.7 SC Mixed 11.8 28% 9.83 GB/s	Latency 74.1 54% 74.1 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 40%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 16%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	155x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	134x
FX-8300AMD $168Bench 58%, 49,767 samples	29x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	76x
Radeon RX 560-BAMDBench 20%, 49,289 samples	29x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	23x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	13x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	17x
EWB4GB681PAE- 2x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 340 samples	15x
1866 CL10 Ser 2x8GBUnknownBench 46%, 679 samples	13x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $122	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	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