Asus M5A97 LE R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 70.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	97.1% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150324
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 19 '17 at 03:55
Run Duration	517 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.1% Very good	Memory 88.5 1-Core 73.4 2-Core 145 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 280 8-Core 434 44% 357 Pts	64-Core 434 27% 434 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	97.1% Outstanding	Lighting 119 Reflection 145 Parallax 124 97% 129 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 136 Splatting 110 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 369GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 67637520 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 566 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 356383514 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10597 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 475 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 30065295391 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 46 672464931 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19142 (C2) HDA temperature 35 54 77309411363 (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 -93763431028854 (F1) Unknown 100 253 45552436487 (F2) Unknown 100 253 575774831687	100% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 156 Mixed 157 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.22 78% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 112%
Seagate ST380013AS 80GB-$75 2,837 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 28GB free Firmware: 3.18 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 65 56 87177895 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 77 77 23614 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 432757332 (09) Power-on hours count 1 1 100015 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2146 (C2) HDA temperature 42 68 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 65 56 87177895 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 8 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	21.1% Poor	Read 35.2 Write 38.3 Mixed 33.5 27% 35.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 0.54 4K Mixed 0.2 55% 0.42 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 21.1% Great: 32%
WD My Book Duo 0A10 2TB 228 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1TB free, PID 0a10 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	16% Very poor	Read 29.9 Write 30.4 Mixed 29.7 39% 30 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.26 65% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 16% Great: 56%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.6% Average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 15.2 MC Mixed 17.1 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 10.7 SC Write 7.8 SC Mixed 13.2 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 48.6% Great: 79%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 - $200

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	424x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	386x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	203x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	107x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	67x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	65x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	50x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	45x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	32x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	26x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $334

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) $30	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