Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 35% Sail boat	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 29% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 66.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	47.7% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	85.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140407
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Jan 19 '18 at 10:49
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing as expected (46^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, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	66.6% Good	Memory 87.7 1-Core 73.3 2-Core 132 61% 97.7 Pts	4-Core 247 8-Core 438 41% 342 Pts	64-Core 438 27% 438 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	47.7% Average	Lighting 59.5 Reflection 63.4 Parallax 56.7 48% 59.9 fps	MRender 66.9 Gravity 55.8 Splatting 49.6 46% 57.4 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Ultimate SU800 512GB-$66 31,280 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 371GB free Firmware: Q0125A 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4426 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 585 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 52 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 20317 (A5) Unknown 100 100 81 (A6) Unknown 100 100 17 (A7) Unknown 100 100 41 (94) Unknown 100 100 5748 (95) Unknown 100 100 232 (96) Unknown 100 100 54 (97) Unknown 100 100 191 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1500 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 170613 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 170613 (F2) Unknown 100 100 139401 (F5) Unknown 100 100 650144	70.2% Very good	Read 479 Write 310 Mixed 341 83% 377 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 39.6 4K Mixed 25 88% 29.1 MB/s	DQ Read 147 DQ Write 77.6 DQ Mixed 51.5 54% 92 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 127%
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 256GB free Firmware: M0CR050 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st 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 3627 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 504 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 10 (AE) Unknown 100 100 81 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 56 188979740700 (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 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 3082697087 (F7) Unknown 100 100 96417122 (F8) Unknown 100 100 9859515 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1257 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	69.9% Good	Read 436 Write 314 Mixed 323 79% 358 MB/s	4K Read 20.8 4K Write 55.4 4K Mixed 22.5 90% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 163 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 35.7 53% 101 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 95%
Liteon CV3-CE256 256GB 1,018 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 238GB free Firmware: TC87903 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 89 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 374 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 39 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1248 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 45 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 100 (EC) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1499 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1348 (F9) Unknown 100 100 1448	93.6% Outstanding	Read 474 Write 451 Mixed 480 105% 468 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 38.3 128% 43.9 MB/s	DQ Read 160 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 74.8 79% 130 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 96%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 193GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 806 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 121 (B1) Unknown 99 99 14 (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 58 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8120907180	85.1% Excellent	Read 472 Write 373 Mixed 401 92% 415 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 65.2 4K Mixed 34 130% 44.5 MB/s	DQ Read 35.3 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 54.8 49% 71.6 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 190149136 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1321 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3814242 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1366 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 181 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 73 56 622067739 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9257 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 77309411355 (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 76557792051696 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23853043620 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19853809565	97.6% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 173 Mixed 163 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.26 75% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 97.6% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4GBXL SLA302G08-GGNHC F3-12800CL9-4GBXL SLA302G08-GGNHC 16GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	49.4% Average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 15.6 MC Mixed 17.6 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 10.6 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 13.6 32% 11 GB/s	Latency 69.8 57% 69.8 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 51%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 - $89

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	864x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	644x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	436x

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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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