Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 25% Raft	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 21% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 63.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	35.8% 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	62.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
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.

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

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	18.3 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150212
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 19 '17 at 14:11
Run Duration	273 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing as expected (45^th 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 Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	63.2% Good	Memory 76.6 1-Core 73.5 2-Core 146 59% 98.7 Pts	4-Core 269 8-Core 437 43% 353 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Asus(1043 8528) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	35.8% Below average	Lighting 46.8 Reflection 43.8 Parallax 39.1 38% 43.3 fps	MRender 39.3 Gravity 40 Splatting 35.8 31% 38.4 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 35.8% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 112GB free Firmware: EXT4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 647 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 143 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 75 33 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 67 (F1) Unknown 99 99 349358328	71.9% Very good	Read 416 Write 269 Mixed 320 74% 335 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 54.7 4K Mixed 20.3 107% 36.5 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 130 DQ Mixed 47.4 67% 125 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 108%
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8068 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2093 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 147 (AE) Unknown 100 100 140 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 58 180388626457 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 19094303420 (F7) Unknown 100 100 599850500 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1708554262	62.8% Good	Read 491 Write 272 Mixed 357 83% 373 MB/s	4K Read 16.4 4K Write 27.5 4K Mixed 18.1 63% 20.7 MB/s	DQ Read 199 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 44.5 64% 121 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 91%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 549GB free Firmware: 51.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 169 162 6533 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4198 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 6 (07) Seek error rate 199 199 75 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12647 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3401 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 237 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 34156 (C2) HDA temperature 124 110 26 (C4) Reallocation count 194 194 6 (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	50.6% Above average	Read 98.9 Write 77.2 Mixed 70.2 61% 82.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.17 74% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 67%
Asmt 2105 2TB 354 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 328GB free Firmware: 0 Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	72.8% Very good	Read 138 Write 116 Mixed 124 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.24 76% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 103%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 170GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 122 118 6858 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4366 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13592 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3786 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 425 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 32744 (C2) HDA temperature 122 106 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	38.6% Below average	Read 65.7 Write 68.8 Mixed 60.4 49% 65 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.18 72% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 59%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 16GB-$6 19,339 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 10GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	17.2% Very poor	Read 30.7 Write 19.8 Mixed 23.8 30% 24.7 MB/s	4K Read 4.3 4K Write 2.43 4K Mixed 1.3 143% 2.68 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 17.2% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 24GB 72 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1066, 1066, 1066, 1066 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38.5% Below average	MC Read 14.6 MC Write 13.7 MC Mixed 12.7 39% 13.7 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 10.4 26% 9.07 GB/s	Latency 87.2 46% 87.2 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 49%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 - $166

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	227x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	102x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	41x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	30x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	27x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	29x
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	21x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	22x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	12x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	12x

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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 $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