Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 70%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	84.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	57.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	10GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 10GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	5.9 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150324
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 18 '18 at 00:23
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	RUS-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8150-$770 22,181 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.25 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70% Good	Memory 91.3 1-Core 73.7 2-Core 146 64% 104 Pts	4-Core 264 8-Core 444 43% 354 Pts	64-Core 442 27% 442 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 66%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 373F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2554 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	84.9% Excellent	Lighting 91.4 Reflection 127 Parallax 140 74% 119 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 145 Splatting 119 105% 129 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 530 Series 120GB-$79 15,015 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 10 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -39247411146705 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2632 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 5 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 191 (B7) Unknown 100 100 9 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 36 47 68722556964 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 191 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 13 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 495386 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 54 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 85 85 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 495386 (F2) Unknown 100 100 583579 (F9) Unknown 100 100 54753	57.2% Above average	Read 475 Write 120 Mixed 146 53% 247 MB/s	4K Read 22.2 4K Write 54.4 4K Mixed 19.7 88% 32.1 MB/s	DQ Read 141 DQ Write 61.4 DQ Mixed 33.1 42% 78.4 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 79%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 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 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 134 134 21494169871 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 96 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 12096 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 77 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 96 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 96 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 167505035300 (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	107% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 183 Mixed 141 128% 172 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.24 109% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 78GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 17194900 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7451 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 291232289 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11848 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5294 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 59 59 41 (BC) Unknown 100 1 42950341269 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 44 47867035683 (C2) HDA temperature 35 56 12884901923 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 18 17194900 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 191 25137 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -139504832715387 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2987181915 (F2) Unknown 100 253 428859857	57.2% Above average	Read 103 Write 96 Mixed 68.7 66% 89.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.57 125% 1 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 70%
WD Blue 2.5" 160GB (2009)-$23 13,176 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 17GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 154 133 1300 (04) Start/Stop count 75 75 25829 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12563 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3915 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 19105 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 853 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 154 154 138235 (C2) HDA temperature 110 89 33 (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 1806 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	21.7% Poor	Read 40.1 Write 35.2 Mixed 29 26% 34.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.26 76% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 21.7% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5273DH0-CH CT51264BA160B.C16F 10GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 2048, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	50.4% Above average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 16.6 MC Mixed 17.2 51% 18 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 10.4 SC Mixed 13.2 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 50%

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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	644x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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