Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 62% Destroyer


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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	71.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140106
Uptime	2.5 Days
Run Date	Aug 23 '17 at 02:30
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	4%

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-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 91.8 1-Core 71.9 2-Core 143 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 272 8-Core 432 43% 352 Pts	64-Core 432 27% 432 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	108% Outstanding	Lighting 129 Reflection 195 Parallax 185 105% 170 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 182 Splatting 129 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 63GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9209 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2049 (B1) Unknown 92 92 85 (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 78 56 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 52 (F1) Unknown 99 99 34421718084	71.6% Very good	Read 504 Write 325 Mixed 341 86% 390 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 46.5 4K Mixed 17.6 101% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 38.6 DQ Write 53.6 DQ Mixed 17.7 21% 36.6 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 118%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 587GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 157 150 5108 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5915 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 11858 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3121 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 124 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5913 (C2) HDA temperature 122 97 25 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	60.6% Good	Read 116 Write 95 Mixed 106 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.4 119% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 62%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 509GB free Firmware: SM14 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 139983128 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3306 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 69469190 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9874 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2284 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032840 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 156 (BE) vendor-specific 79 63 353239061 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 892 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 34958 (C2) HDA temperature 21 40 34359738389 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	52.8% Above average	Read 79.8 Write 103 Mixed 78.3 65% 87 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 5.82 4K Mixed 0.52 195% 2.35 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 4,489 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	51.4% Above average	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 15.1 MC Mixed 18.5 53% 18.4 GB/s	SC Read 11.1 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 13.8 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 79%

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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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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 $45	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