Asus M5A97 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 66.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	16.7% 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)
Boot Drive	66.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 PRO (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121016
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 12 '17 at 00:47
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 955-$83 41,403 User benchmarks, average bench 51% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	66.1% Good	Memory 89.4 1-Core 61.7 2-Core 127 58% 92.7 Pts	4-Core 249 8-Core 254 34% 251 Pts	64-Core 254 16% 254 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6870 25,443 User benchmarks, average bench 15% Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	16.7% Very poor	Lighting 22.6 Reflection 15.5 Parallax 19.6 18% 19.2 fps	MRender 12.5 Gravity 15.4 Splatting 19.7 13% 15.9 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 16.7% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 160GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q 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 99 99 3937 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 927 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 56 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 20 (EB) Unknown 99 99 287 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15410485924	66.5% Good	Read 471 Write 315 Mixed 334 83% 373 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 46.7 4K Mixed 15.6 91% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 34.6 DQ Write 51.2 DQ Mixed 15.5 19% 33.8 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 118%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 62GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10581 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3035 (E8) Unknown 100 100 27797371261 (E9) Unknown 96 0 96	67.6% Good	Read 412 Write 382 Mixed 380 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 66.9 4K Mixed 16.5 86% 34.2 MB/s	DQ Read 24.2 DQ Write 82 DQ Mixed 15.6 23% 40.6 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 104%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 211GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 19937 (03) Spinup time 174 171 4283 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11459 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19028 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 90 90 10970 (C0) Power-off retract count 191 191 7374 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4084 (C2) HDA temperature 113 91 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	74.8% Very good	Read 133 Write 127 Mixed 117 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.38 132% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 196GB free Firmware: CC47 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 119 99 203470328 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1916 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 14188180 (09) Power-on hours count 100 97 650 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 84 84 16626 (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 70 61 4816699422 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 386 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 31361 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 -140737488355298 (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 -48116518614854 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15316288539 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13500541193	71.4% Very good	Read 122 Write 127 Mixed 120 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.3 105% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 112%
Seagate ST3750640AS 750GB-$60 7,916 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 102GB free Firmware: 3.AFM Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13402 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 304409009 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18726 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 90 90 10926 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 430 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 32 69295625142308 (C2) HDA temperature 36 68 85899345956 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 61 51 198083590 (C5) Current pending sector count 56 56 912 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 56 56 912 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	29.5% Poor	Read 48.7 Write 53.9 Mixed 21 30% 41.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.2 60% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 29.5% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 12GB 85,415 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	35.6% Below average	MC Read 15.4 MC Write 7.7 MC Mixed 13.3 35% 12.1 GB/s	SC Read 7.2 SC Write 6.9 SC Mixed 10.3 23% 8.13 GB/s	Latency 68 59% 68 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 35.6% Great: 50%

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 PRO

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	29x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	18x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	15x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	11x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	9x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	9x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	12x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	7x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	5x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	49x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	40x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	12x

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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $217

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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