Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 15% Tree trunk	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 69.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	17.3% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	21.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 10 '17 at 14:35
Run Duration	226 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-4300-$73 55,454 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	69.5% Good	Memory 95.6 1-Core 82.5 2-Core 147 67% 108 Pts	4-Core 254 8-Core 255 34% 254 Pts	64-Core 255 16% 255 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti-$188 42,397 User benchmarks, average bench 16% PNY(196E 0898) 1GB CLim: 822 MHz, MLim: 1002 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	17.3% Very poor	Lighting 20.3 Reflection 23.4 Parallax 18 16% 20.6 fps	MRender 27.2 Gravity 20.6 Splatting 22.3 19% 23.3 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 17.3% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Crucial M550 128GB-$40 2,673 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 82GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14034 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3857 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 95 95 171 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1902 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1036 (B7) Unknown 100 100 6 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 51 210454118431 (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 3 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 95 95 5 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 25026621033 (F7) Unknown 100 100 952115892 (F8) Unknown 100 100 605897928
Poor: 58% Great: 104%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 400GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 150 121 5500 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9014 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 38 38 45733 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6807 (C0) Power-off retract count 196 196 3194 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1288199 (C2) HDA temperature 115 97 32 (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 200 198 958 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	51% Above average	Read 89.6 Write 88.1 Mixed 86.4 66% 88 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.17 74% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 59%
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 239GB free Firmware: 1AG0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 90 90 3930 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13112 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 2 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 45432 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 6857 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 61 538771485 (C2) HDA temperature 74 60 554893338 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 16962 (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 99 99 274 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	40.2% Average	Read 60.5 Write 79.5 Mixed 73.1 54% 71 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.54 112% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.2% Great: 62%
Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB-$25 163,843 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 113GB free Firmware: MS1O Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 71 (03) Spinup time 176 176 12891848858 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 9416 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 113 113 35 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 19638 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4707 (C0) Power-off retract count 92 92 9783 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 9783 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 201864183840 (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 200 200 1	85.5% Excellent	Read 175 Write 123 Mixed 108 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.2 85% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 103%
Samsung HD502HI 500GB-$154 24,344 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 94GB free Firmware: 1AG0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 94 2 (03) Spinup time 93 93 3100 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14079 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 99 99 16 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 53486 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 40 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 8776 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 94 2 (B7) Unknown 100 100 459 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 2309 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 59 488374300 (C2) HDA temperature 76 58 504496152 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 321613 (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 99 145 (C8) Write error rate 100 95 28 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	33.7% Below average	Read 41.3 Write 75.8 Mixed 63.4 46% 60.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.41 93% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 33.7% Great: 59%
Seagate ST3160815AS 160GB-$46 33,785 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 30GB free Firmware: 3.AA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 91 22138690 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8989 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 771047947 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14557 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 5017 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 50 639500326 (C2) HDA temperature 38 50 42949672998 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 78 68 165867941 (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 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	28.1% Poor	Read 59 Write 38.7 Mixed 48.8 37% 48.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.28 73% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 28.1% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GB 1,222 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	58.5% Above average	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 15.1 MC Mixed 21.8 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 10 SC Mixed 14.9 36% 12.6 GB/s	Latency 55.4 72% 55.4 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 89%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 - $89

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	864x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	644x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	436x

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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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