Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 27% Raft	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (28th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 72 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 an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 27.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	6.8% 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	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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	3.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20140407
Uptime	16.6 Days
Run Date	May 29 '20 at 12:28
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$90 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	27.3% Poor	Memory 35.2 1-Core 32.9 2-Core 61.6 26% 43.2 Pts	4-Core 106 8-Core 151 16% 129 Pts	64-Core 219 14% 219 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 27.3% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 640 34,519 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Gainward(10B0 0FC1) 1GB CLim: 901 MHz, MLim: 445 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 445.87 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	6.8% Terrible	Lighting 7.6 Reflection 6.27 Parallax 6.91 6% 6.93 fps	MRender 8.67 Gravity 9.87 Splatting 10.3 8% 9.63 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.8% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
AMD 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 119GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.10 SusWrite @10s intervals: 37 88 82 112 128 94 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	37.4% Below average	Read 40.3 Write 21.8 Mixed 19.8 SusWrite 90.2 31% 43 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 0.6 4K Mixed 0.5 79% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 37.4% Great: 152%
AMD 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 500GB 248 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 127GB free Firmware: 1.10 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 890 Write 27.1 Mixed 43.1 230% 320 MB/s	4K Read 112 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 1.4 4,835% 38 MB/s
Poor: 26% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 77,652 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1066 MHz clocked @ 533 MHz Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	25.4% Poor	MC Read 9.8 MC Write 10 MC Mixed 10.4 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 2.7 SC Write 3 SC Mixed 3.2 8% 2.97 GB/s	Latency 226 18% 226 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 25.4% Great: 63%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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	877x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	649x
FX-8320AMD $125Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	443x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	187x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	161x
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	122x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
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	56x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	50x

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