Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 62% Destroyer	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 64.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	12.4% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Oct 09 '16 at 20:33
Run Duration	266 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	64.7% Good	Memory 83.5 1-Core 72.6 2-Core 136 60% 97.5 Pts	4-Core 249 8-Core 436 41% 343 Pts	64-Core 437 27% 437 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI HD 4870 22,563 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Sapphire(174B E115) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.1100 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	12.4% Very poor	Lighting 15.6 Reflection 13.2 Parallax 11.3 13% 13.4 fps	MRender 11 Gravity 11.3 Splatting 18.9 12% 13.8 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 12.4% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 180GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB0Q 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 97 97 13754 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 680 (B1) Unknown 97 97 33 (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 37 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 88 88 12065 (EB) Unknown 99 99 133 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15067029522
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
OCZ VERTEX3 60GB 3,574 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 9GB free Firmware: 2.13 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 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 -100270306451075 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 990 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 126 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11712 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8950 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8950 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15068
Poor: 44% Great: 70%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$71 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 778GB free Firmware: JKAOA3EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 98 98 327680 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 106 (03) Spinup time 124 124 51577225807 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4122 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 116 116 37 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 27526 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1226 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4220 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4220 (C2) HDA temperature 136 136 300648497196 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 8 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	59.3% Above average	Read 104 Write 102 Mixed 15.4 54% 74.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.4 100% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 69%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 377GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 169 6291 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2171 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 15114 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 644 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 111 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 174 174 79726 (C2) HDA temperature 111 81 39 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 40% Great: 83%
WD Green 1.5TB (2009)-$150 16,916 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 26GB free Firmware: 04.05G04 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 154 138 9266 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6868 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27143 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2417 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1656 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 169 169 93317 (C2) HDA temperature 108 77 44 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	42.8% Average	Read 77.9 Write 70.8 Mixed 72.7 56% 73.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 0.41 113% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 55%
MAXTOR S TM3320820A 320GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 180GB free, PID 6830 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	14.9% Very poor	Read 30.1 Write 31.1 Mixed 12.4 30% 24.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.22 49% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 14.9% Great: 16%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 7,771 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	44.3% Average	MC Read 17.2 MC Write 15.2 MC Mixed 14.8 45% 15.7 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 12.6 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 74.2 54% 74.2 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 79%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 - $89

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	865x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	645x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	438x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	186x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	160x
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	118x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	85x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	83x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	77x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	85x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	55x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	50x

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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