Asus M5A97

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 72.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	18.8% 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	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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 (all builds)
Memory	14.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121025
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 20 '18 at 21:13
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing way above expectations (85^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 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	Memory 94.8 1-Core 72.9 2-Core 146 65% 104 Pts	4-Core 273 8-Core 437 44% 355 Pts	64-Core 425 26% 425 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti-$188 42,397 User benchmarks, average bench 16% Nvidia(10DE 0898) 1GB CLim: 910 MHz, MLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	18.8% Very poor	Lighting 22 Reflection 25.4 Parallax 19.8 18% 22.4 fps	MRender 29.5 Gravity 22.5 Splatting 23.6 20% 25.2 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 18.8% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$25 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 583GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 64 153 71 139 162 141 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Read 188 Write 163 Mixed 34.1 SusWrite 122 91% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.6 113% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 112%
Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 500GB 64,410 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 420GB free Firmware: GG2OACY0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 96 90 97 97 97 97 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	53.7% Above average	Read 91.7 Write 88.6 Mixed 33.2 SusWrite 95.5 56% 77.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.5 106% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16GB 70,565 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	56.6% Above average	MC Read 23.9 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 21.3 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.9 34% 11.9 GB/s	Latency 57.6 70% 57.6 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 54%

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Gaming 32%

Sail boat

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 26%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 - $89

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	52x
FX-4100AMD $110Bench 51%, 32,471 samples	43x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	41x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	11x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	133x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	86x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	31x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $495

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16