Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 71.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	103% 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	78.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	6.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Dec 28 '16 at 18:21
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	PRI-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.7% Very good	Memory 93.1 1-Core 71.7 2-Core 142 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 273 8-Core 437 44% 355 Pts	64-Core 438 27% 438 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 65%

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: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (56^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 129 Reflection 148 Parallax 125 105% 134 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 141 Splatting 110 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 256GB-$116 55,768 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 190GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3310 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 603 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 41 (AE) Unknown 100 100 47 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 55 193274839078 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 8387098071 (F7) Unknown 100 100 266696906 (F8) Unknown 100 100 434671149	78.5% Very good	Read 504 Write 329 Mixed 388 90% 407 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 62.6 4K Mixed 28.1 102% 37.4 MB/s	DQ Read 166 DQ Write 143 DQ Mixed 48 65% 119 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 97%
Seagate ST31500541AS 1.5TB 9,968 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 233037871 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2179 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 141936242733 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6319 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1921 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 87 87 13 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BE) vendor-specific 60 52 672530472 (C2) HDA temperature 40 48 85899345960 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 56 33 233037871 (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 124884764077030 (F1) Unknown 100 253 369949660 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1535854931	49% Average	Read 79.1 Write 91.7 Mixed 74.1 61% 81.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.37 90% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 56%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GB 1,522 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.3% Above average	MC Read 23.1 MC Write 14.4 MC Mixed 16 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 13.4 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 61.9 65% 61.9 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 71%

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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	644x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	437x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	186x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	159x
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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Total price: $358

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