Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	104% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	121% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Motherboard	Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160422
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Dec 19 '17 at 06:49
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	SYC-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (41^st 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% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	68% Good	Memory 81.3 1-Core 79.8 2-Core 156 63% 106 Pts	4-Core 296 8-Core 482 48% 389 Pts	64-Core 494 30% 494 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 144 Parallax 124 111% 135 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 128 Splatting 106 92% 113 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 1,104 Write 456 Mixed 792 173% 784 MB/s	4K Read 36.4 4K Write 72.6 4K Mixed 34.5 138% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 156 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 81.9 82% 131 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 243%
Ocz-vertex2 3.5 120GB 4,046 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 11GB free Firmware: 1.37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 10781137 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -64974265219328 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2007 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 139 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 105 105 10781137 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 26240 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13248 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13248 (F2) Unknown 0 0 37696
Poor: 29% Great: 55%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 137GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 120888596 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2612 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 4551671387 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21720 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2612 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 521601055 (C2) HDA temperature 31 44 25769803807 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 23 120888596 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 6 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -90288802469129 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3406389969 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2957661211	48.9% Average	Read 86.2 Write 84.2 Mixed 72.3 61% 80.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.41 82% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1066 MHz clocked @ 533 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41% Average	MC Read 15.6 MC Write 14 MC Mixed 13.5 41% 14.4 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 12.1 29% 10 GB/s	Latency 78.1 51% 78.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 63%

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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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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