Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 70% Battle cruiser	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 64.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	38.9% 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	53.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	8.4 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20131001
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 28 '17 at 00:10
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	64.8% Good	Memory 89.4 1-Core 63.1 2-Core 116 57% 89.6 Pts	4-Core 223 8-Core 299 33% 261 Pts	64-Core 297 18% 297 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 3967) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	38.9% Below average	Lighting 51.3 Reflection 47.4 Parallax 42.9 42% 47.2 fps	MRender 38.9 Gravity 44.3 Splatting 38.9 33% 40.7 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 128994571 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 134672994539407 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1207 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 705 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 38 51542097950 (C2) HDA temperature 30 38 51542097950 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 128994571 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 128994571 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 128994571 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 64424509441 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11519 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6257 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6257 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8625 (F4) Unknown 99 99 4587567	53.8% Above average	Read 488 Write 162 Mixed 247 65% 299 MB/s	4K Read 9.59 4K Write 47.8 4K Mixed 15.7 60% 24.4 MB/s	DQ Read 137 DQ Write 132 DQ Mixed 55.5 63% 108 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 85%
Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 750GB-$52 41,501 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 696GB free Firmware: JE4OA60A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 176 176 73014444033 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 649 (05) Reallocated sector count 1 1 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 2392 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 580 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 55541 (C2) HDA temperature 230 230 197569216538 (C4) Reallocation count 78 78 707 (C5) Current pending sector count 1 1 33264 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	48.3% Average	Read 89 Write 79.5 Mixed 23.3 47% 63.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.13 46% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 53%
Toshiba MQ01ABD075 750GB-$40 42,694 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1TB free Firmware: AX0A4M Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^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 1714 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7264 (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 74 74 10560 (0A) Spinup retry count 244 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7159 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 156 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 73 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 232371 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 193274576923 (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 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 78 78 8966 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 264 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	56.6% Above average	Read 95.4 Write 102 Mixed 30.7 56% 76 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.2 66% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 57%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 176GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 73 (03) Spinup time 131 131 21493842210 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 8099 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 7 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 18845 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1275 (C0) Power-off retract count 94 94 8127 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 8127 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 184684183585 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 8 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 17	64.2% Good	Read 116 Write 107 Mixed 4.91 55% 76.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.2 81% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-1600C9-4GAB Hynix HMT325U6BFR8C-H9 F3-1600C9-4GAB Hynix HMT325U6BFR8C-H9 12GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 2048, 4096, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	45.5% Average	MC Read 18.5 MC Write 14 MC Mixed 16.1 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 8.9 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 11.1 28% 9.63 GB/s	Latency 68 59% 68 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 46%

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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	865x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	644x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	437x

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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Total price: $358

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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