Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 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. 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 63.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	18.4% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	4.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150324
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Dec 29 '17 at 18:29
Run Duration	286 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320E-$87 33,199 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	63.8% Good	Memory 88.4 1-Core 62.7 2-Core 121 57% 90.7 Pts	4-Core 214 8-Core 332 34% 273 Pts	64-Core 337 21% 337 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 460-$90 64,240 User benchmarks, average bench 20% XFX(1682 9460) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	18.4% Very poor	Lighting 19.7 Reflection 25.7 Parallax 21.2 16% 22.2 fps	MRender 28.6 Gravity 22.6 Splatting 31.7 23% 27.6 fps
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 18.4% Great: 22%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 23GB free Firmware: DXT06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19125 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2796 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 69 56 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 27 (EB) Unknown 99 99 124 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2259240174	47.5% Average	Read 470 Write 90 Mixed 83.8 46% 215 MB/s	4K Read 20 4K Write 41.2 4K Mixed 8.99 64% 23.4 MB/s	DQ Read 128 DQ Write 96 DQ Mixed 24.5 42% 82.8 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 127GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 98918152 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6716 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10511182 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12948 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1525 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 157 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 48 604962850 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 48176 (C2) HDA temperature 34 52 47244640290 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 76 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 932007908176 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2848628839 (F2) Unknown 100 253 94486263480	94.2% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 156 Mixed 62.9 96% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.27 83% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.2% Great: 112%
WD VelociRaptor 500GB-$62 8,133 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: 04.06A00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 174 2175 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2818 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23308 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2788 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 182 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2635 (C2) HDA temperature 110 90 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	75.6% Very good	Read 159 Write 105 Mixed 70 82% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.43 118% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 113%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 46GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 131 121 6441 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13642 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 32889 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4179 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1356 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 136 136 192527 (C2) HDA temperature 111 91 36 (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	47.1% Average	Read 89.1 Write 75.1 Mixed 4.69 40% 56.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.35 4K Mixed 0.17 55% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.1% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 32GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 68597264 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7405 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12068090 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13871 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1648 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 81 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 51 554631200 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 58 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 67575 (C2) HDA temperature 32 49 47244640288 (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 4707284161656 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2975822633 (F2) Unknown 100 253 36224613516	55.6% Above average	Read 99 Write 94.4 Mixed 38.2 57% 77.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.23 98% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 73,650 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	48.1% Average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 16.9 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 11.9 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 62%

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Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

Surfboard

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 $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