Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 62.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Boot Drive	57.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 24 '17 at 01:05
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6100-$68 44,863 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62.9% Good	Memory 87.4 1-Core 58.7 2-Core 118 56% 88.1 Pts	4-Core 214 8-Core 281 32% 248 Pts	64-Core 286 18% 286 Pts
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SP600 128GB 8,600 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 90GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1241 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 985 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 537 (A9) Unknown 100 100 524289 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 196 196 17185243152 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 70 (C2) HDA temperature 37 37 270585364543 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	57.8% Above average	Read 465 Write 126 Mixed 179 56% 257 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 49.8 4K Mixed 18.7 85% 30.5 MB/s	DQ Read 154 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 29.2 51% 100 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5TB-$130 20,479 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 179GB free Firmware: CC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 4424 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6160 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 34774333937 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19573 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3175 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 90 538 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 58 46 47985393706 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 585 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6691 (C2) HDA temperature 42 54 -140737488355286 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 9 4424 (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 113442971211328 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2467453654 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2535381100	59.5% Above average	Read 98.5 Write 109 Mixed 26.2 57% 78 MB/s	4K Read 0.26 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.43 76% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 69%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 79GB free Firmware: CA12 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 96 49304030 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 1 1 4061 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 8646930790 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 13132 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1443 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BC) Unknown 100 98 38655295497 (BD) vendor-specific 83 83 17 (BE) vendor-specific 58 54 707199018 (C2) HDA temperature 42 46 68719476778 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 55 42 49304030 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	54% Above average	Read 101 Write 87.1 Mixed 36.7 55% 75 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.35 83% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 54% Great: 60%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 41GB free Firmware: KC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 5056 (03) Spinup time 100 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 859 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 8860706011 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6761 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 848 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032876 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 56 45 774438956 (C2) HDA temperature 44 55 77309411372 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 64 45 5056 (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 -52892522243477 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3625345485 (F2) Unknown 100 253 375891169	44.7% Average	Read 78.1 Write 78.1 Mixed 28.3 45% 61.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.17 4K Write 0.34 4K Mixed 0.37 54% 0.29 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 78,181 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	50.9% Above average	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 18.5 53% 18.5 GB/s	SC Read 8.8 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 12.8 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 70.1 57% 70.1 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 62%

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Gaming 23%

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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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Total price: $358

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 $40	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