Asus M5A97 LE R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 70% Battle cruiser	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 65.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	87% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	88.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	20.3 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150324
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 22 '16 at 19:27
Run Duration	379 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	65.3% Good	Memory 77 1-Core 75.1 2-Core 149 60% 100 Pts	4-Core 292 8-Core 407 44% 349 Pts	64-Core 434 27% 434 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 115 Parallax 106 90% 110 fps	MRender 97.5 Gravity 101 Splatting 101 82% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 75GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 748 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 201 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 64 54 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 57 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3152281428	88.5% Excellent	Read 482 Write 380 Mixed 399 94% 420 MB/s	4K Read 35.9 4K Write 55.1 4K Mixed 35.4 129% 42.1 MB/s	DQ Read 167 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 66.7 70% 116 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 124%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 55GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 100 337 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 537 (A6) Unknown 100 100 609 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 660 (A9) Unknown 100 100 36 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 637 (AE) Unknown 100 100 56 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 100 214748364836 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 21 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 146964 (F1) Unknown 253 253 624 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1209	67.7% Good	Read 500 Write 352 Mixed 410 93% 421 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 55.7 4K Mixed 4.26 70% 27.7 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 151 DQ Mixed 27.6 56% 115 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 67.7% Great: 86%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2013) 72,354 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 395GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 76 (03) Spinup time 154 141 1291 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9441 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4438 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1177 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 188 188 37303 (C2) HDA temperature 113 97 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 95 95 4306	57.7% Above average	Read 101 Write 101 Mixed 98.3 75% 99.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.2 59% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 63%
Fujitsu MHV2120BH PL 120GB 702 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 62GB free Firmware: 892C Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 28949 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 26673564 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 8122 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8589934592000 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 3820 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 26602 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4561 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 231 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 503297 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 227633922076 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 321 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 450691072 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 26418 (CB) Run out cancel 100 100 433769284666 (F0) Head flying hours 200 200 0	16.1% Very poor	Read 27.2 Write 28.9 Mixed 28 21% 28 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.81 4K Mixed 0.22 54% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 16.1% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMY8GX3M2A1866C9 CMY16GX3M2A1866C9 CMY8GX3M2A1866C9 CMY16GX3M2A1866C9 24GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1066, 1066, 1066, 1066 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	35.2% Below average	MC Read 13.9 MC Write 11.7 MC Mixed 11.8 36% 12.5 GB/s	SC Read 6.7 SC Write 7.8 SC Mixed 8.7 22% 7.73 GB/s	Latency 86.3 46% 86.3 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 35.2% Great: 54%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 - $200

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	425x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	387x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	203x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	107x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	67x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	65x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	50x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	45x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	32x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	26x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $334

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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