Asus M5A97 LE R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 35% Jet ski	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (33rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 67 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 36.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	3.25% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	40.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	6.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150324
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Jul 06 '17 at 19:28
Run Duration	1156 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X4 960T-$469 4,461 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	36.6% Below average	Memory 65 1-Core 16.9 2-Core 25.3 28% 35.7 Pts	4-Core 47.6 8-Core 68.3 7% 58 Pts	64-Core 88.3 6% 88.3 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 36.6% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6670 32,193 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Sapphire(174B E198) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1201.0 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	3.25% Terrible	Lighting 2.87 Reflection 7.08 Parallax 7.53 2% 5.82 fps	MRender 6.48 Gravity 6.23 Splatting 5.83 5% 6.18 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 3.25% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 520A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 81669829887 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 15298673525743 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 595 (AB) Unknown 0 0 4 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 155 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 4 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 38 41 34362425382 (C2) HDA temperature 38 41 34362425382 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 81669829887 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 8 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 81669829887 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 81669829887 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14941 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16431 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16431 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21821	40.6% Average	Read 454 Write 194 Mixed 234 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 5.49 4K Write 17.3 4K Mixed 3.4 22% 8.74 MB/s	DQ Read 98.7 DQ Write 95.5 DQ Mixed 58.2 54% 84.1 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 85%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	49.7% Average	Read 83.6 Write 89.6 Mixed 72.4 61% 81.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.18 67% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 63%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 676GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	48.7% Average	Read 79.2 Write 90.5 Mixed 67.8 59% 79.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.21 68% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 63%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 838GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 159 156 7008 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5272 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 5 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 38 38 45909 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1626 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 206 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5196 (C2) HDA temperature 109 100 41 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	39.2% Below average	Read 92 Write 44.7 Mixed 74.3 53% 70.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.29 68% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 57%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 337GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	67.9% Good	Read 118 Write 118 Mixed 80.9 79% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.3 82% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 207GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 100 84060648 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1291 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 963349 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5539 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 409 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 58 55 706347050 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 71 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6024 (C2) HDA temperature 42 45 25769803818 (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 85465554223405 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1802229472 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23365581434	72.2% Very good	Read 126 Write 125 Mixed 120 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.25 81% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 112%
Seagate ST32000542AS 2TB-$100 19,960 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 181GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 85 26430122 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11397 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 52 48 914858397134 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 23887 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4765 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 4035 (BC) Unknown 100 96 111670853661 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 64 55 605683748 (C2) HDA temperature 36 45 34359738404 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 25 26430122 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 7 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 7 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -128037270036273 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2425807891 (F2) Unknown 100 253 818305761	32.7% Below average	Read 56.9 Write 56.7 Mixed 50.6 41% 54.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.5 97% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 32.7% Great: 61%
Seagate ST32000542AS 2TB-$100 19,960 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 115GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 176254941 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5213 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 58 549880694023 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 40751 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 895 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 120260919326 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 52 706412583 (C2) HDA temperature 39 48 42949672999 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 26 176254941 (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 50388556350372 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3078329847 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3151697623	43.6% Average	Read 84 Write 67.9 Mixed 64.9 54% 72.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.51 103% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 43.6% Great: 61%
WD WD10EACS-00ZJB0 1TB 28,352 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 134GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 157 7075 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5983 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 28 28 52932 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1878 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 278 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5939 (C2) HDA temperature 107 101 43 (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 4 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	37.5% Below average	Read 69.1 Write 61.3 Mixed 63.8 49% 64.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.32 82% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 37.5% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	59.2% Above average	Read 107 Write 98.9 Mixed 27.3 57% 77.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 2.63 4K Mixed 0.53 124% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 88%
USB Flash Disk 1GB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 1GB free, PID null Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	4.03% Terrible	Read 9.27 Write 9.1 Mixed 6.95 11% 8.44 MB/s	4K Read 1.28 4K Write 0.13 4K Mixed 0.15 14% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.03% Great: 5%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	21.7% Poor	MC Read 9.7 MC Write 5.7 MC Mixed 8.4 23% 7.93 GB/s	SC Read 2.3 SC Write 1.7 SC Mixed 3.4 7% 2.47 GB/s	Latency 114 35% 114 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 21.7% Great: 86%

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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	424x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	386x
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 $37Bench 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 $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