Asus M5A97 LE R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 69.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
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	62.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140409
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '17 at 11:43
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (49^th 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 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Memory 88.9 1-Core 73.4 2-Core 143 62% 102 Pts	4-Core 274 8-Core 438 44% 356 Pts	64-Core 436 27% 436 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 131 Reflection 153 Parallax 128 107% 137 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 131 Splatting 109 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 282GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3255 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 888 (A5) Unknown 100 100 13435030 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 463 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 12 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 62 266289086494 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 180389543978 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 513 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3098 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2613 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2671 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	62.4% Good	Read 378 Write 298 Mixed 245 68% 307 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 44.8 4K Mixed 10.4 82% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 144 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 33 51% 96.5 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 108%
OCZ Vector 128GB-$71 1,277 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 93GB free Firmware: 3.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7122 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2294 (AB) Unknown 80 80 18365776 (AE) Unknown 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 42 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 99 99 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1034 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1376 (F9) Unknown 100 100 110804169	82.7% Excellent	Read 505 Write 389 Mixed 435 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 17.3 4K Write 70.3 4K Mixed 29.3 101% 39 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 94.8 90% 141 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 103%
WD Green 1.5TB (2009)-$150 16,916 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 982GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 181 5675 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9050 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 26045 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6464 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 369 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 657491 (C2) HDA temperature 125 107 25 (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 1	45.1% Average	Read 73.6 Write 83.5 Mixed 76.8 59% 78 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.33 75% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 55%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1866 CL10 Series 2x8GB 7,244 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.2% Average	MC Read 20.3 MC Write 15.3 MC Mixed 17.2 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.6 SC Write 8.7 SC Mixed 13.2 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 68%

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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