Asus P5Q-EM

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 39% Jet ski	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 41.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	8.07% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus P5Q-EM (all builds)
Memory	0.9 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20090708
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jan 24 '18 at 18:22
Run Duration	248 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Quad Q9450-$110 5,335 User benchmarks, average bench 49% LGA 775, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.65 GHz, turbo 2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	41.7% Average	Memory 65.1 1-Core 28.7 2-Core 56.7 35% 50.2 Pts	4-Core 109 8-Core 108 14% 108 Pts	64-Core 107 7% 107 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 41.7% Great: 57%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 14,881 User benchmarks, average bench 7% Device(0000 0000) 1GB Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	8.07% Terrible	Lighting 11.5 Reflection 10.2 Parallax 3.91 9% 8.53 fps	MRender 5 Gravity 8.27 Splatting 6.87 6% 6.71 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 8.07% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 703GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AA01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 65 65 11240 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 3744 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 14113 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 10303 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3725 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 57 369885206 (C2) HDA temperature 74 55 453771290 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4235635 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	51.2% Above average	Read 85.8 Write 92.4 Mixed 31.9 51% 70.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.32 99% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 62%
Maxtor 6B200P0 204GB 243 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 75GB free Firmware: BAH41BM0 Max speed: UDMA 133 133 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 205 203 10926 (04) Start/Stop count 251 251 5706 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (06) Read channel margin 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 249 236 44954 (09) Power-on hours count 221 221 21584 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 240 240 5329 (C0) Power-off retract count 253 253 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 253 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 252 7890 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 199 199 0 (C8) Write error rate 253 252 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 252 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 252 0 (CB) Run out cancel 253 252 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 253 252 0 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 253 252 0 (CF) Spin high current 253 252 0 (D0) Spin buzz 253 252 0 (D1) Offline seek performance 240 240 156 (D2) Unknown 253 252 0 (D3) Unknown 253 252 0 (D4) Unknown 253 253 0	29.1% Poor	Read 49.2 Write 51.6 Mixed 44.1 36% 48.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 0.36 110% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 29.1% Great: 34%
WD My Book 1TB 10,299 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 391GB free, PID 1100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	16.4% Very poor	Read 31.7 Write 27.7 Mixed 11.1 28% 23.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.27 74% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 16.4% Great: 22%
Seagate FreeAgent 1TB 1,657 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 336GB free, PID 3008 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	11.1% Very poor	Read 22.6 Write 21.2 Mixed 9.22 21% 17.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.03 4K Mixed 0.23 44% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 11.1% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x1GB 54,972 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 4 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR2 Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	19.1% Very poor	MC Read 6.6 MC Write 5.7 MC Mixed 5.9 17% 6.07 GB/s	SC Read 5.6 SC Write 6.3 SC Mixed 5.6 17% 5.83 GB/s	Latency 113 35% 113 ns
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 28%

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Typical P5Q-EM Builds (Compare 60 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 5%

Tree trunk

Desktop 43%

Speed boat

Workstation 5%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus P5Q-EM

CPU
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $89Bench 40%, 68,540 samples	13x
Core2 Quad Q9650Intel $170Bench 51%, 16,719 samples	9x
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $161Bench 49%, 34,093 samples	8x

GPU
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	9x
G45/G43 Express ChipsetIntelBench 1%, 6,554 samples	7x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	5x

SSD
Z400s 256GBSanDisk $221Bench 72%, 10,770 samples	5x
Green 120GB (2018)WD $59Bench 43%, 69,933 samples	4x
SU650 240GBAdata $70Bench 70%, 47,016 samples	4x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	34x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	8x
3GBUnknownBench 14%, 81,553 samples	5x

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Value: 20% - Very poor

Total price: $309

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