Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (34th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 66 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 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 67.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	104% 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	56% 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 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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Dec 11 '17 at 05:40
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-9590-$298 26,109 User benchmarks, average bench 63% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	67.9% Good	Memory 89.5 1-Core 77.8 2-Core 140 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 251 8-Core 451 42% 351 Pts	64-Core 455 28% 455 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 171 Parallax 194 100% 163 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 179 Splatting 126 117% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 422GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7979 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2977 (B1) Unknown 75 75 123 (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 67 54 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 76 (F1) Unknown 99 99 61027049356	65.4% Good	Read 446 Write 247 Mixed 261 70% 318 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 45.4 4K Mixed 13.5 92% 30.7 MB/s	DQ Read 172 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 14.6 44% 96.4 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 123%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT07B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 30193 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1140 (B1) Unknown 88 88 134 (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 68 50 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 1 130 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17146672298	56% Above average	Read 476 Write 129 Mixed 185 57% 263 MB/s	4K Read 21.2 4K Write 66.2 4K Mixed 8.41 78% 32 MB/s	DQ Read 194 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 8.72 47% 108 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 73%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 266GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 169 2333 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9236 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13190 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3962 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 211 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9028 (C2) HDA temperature 109 102 34 (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	77.5% Very good	Read 133 Write 137 Mixed 127 100% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.32 104% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 109%
Innostor Ext. HDD 1TB 684 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 323GB free, PID 0621 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	34.5% Below average	Read 81.4 Write 81.8 Mixed 77.1 103% 80.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.19 61% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 34.5% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GB 14,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.1% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 16.4 MC Mixed 17.6 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.4 SC Write 9.7 SC Mixed 13.2 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 67.9 59% 67.9 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 64%

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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