Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 57% Gunboat	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 61.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	13.2% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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 8 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20141021
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 04 '16 at 16:28
Run Duration	223 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320E-$87 33,199 User benchmarks, average bench 58% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	61.5% Good	Memory 83.3 1-Core 43.5 2-Core 121 51% 82.6 Pts	4-Core 216 8-Core 340 34% 278 Pts	64-Core 344 21% 344 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% XFX(1682 3232) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 21.19.155.257 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	13.2% Very poor	Lighting 16.3 Reflection 16.5 Parallax 22 13% 18.3 fps	MRender 13.6 Gravity 15.1 Splatting 18 13% 15.6 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.2% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
SanDisk SSD 128GB-$84 8,513 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.0.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9466 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1960 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 235 (AE) Unknown 100 100 582 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 783 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 937 (F1) Unknown 100 100 22658702291 (F2) Unknown 100 100 29761002493
Poor: 26% Great: 56%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 182GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 91 215365312 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3674 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 9 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 433913941 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3648 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1308 (BC) Unknown 100 86 137441051990 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 381 (BE) vendor-specific 63 47 621543461 (C2) HDA temperature 37 53 30064771109 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 33 215365312 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 195 5315 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -121629178837471 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4178538933 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4044865118	46.6% Average	Read 75.8 Write 86.5 Mixed 21.1 44% 61.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.34 84% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 46.6% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 32GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 157565930 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11870 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 187873467 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21414 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4460 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 73015558274 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 50 554434593 (C2) HDA temperature 33 50 34359738401 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 23 157565930 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 111 33146 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 55465207693772 (F1) Unknown 100 253 625486657 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3934382800	63.9% Good	Read 111 Write 112 Mixed 29.5 61% 84 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.51 121% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMV4GX3M1A133 Kingston KHX2400C11D3/ 12GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 667, 800 MHz 4096, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	27.2% Poor	MC Read 8.9 MC Write 8.7 MC Mixed 8.2 25% 8.6 GB/s	SC Read 8.3 SC Write 7.9 SC Mixed 7.9 23% 8.03 GB/s	Latency 74.7 54% 74.7 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 27.2% Great: 27%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P - $149

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	939x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	854x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	395x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	279x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	180x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	157x

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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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