Asus M5A97

Performance Results


Gaming 37% Jet ski	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 27% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 60.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	56.5% 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	55% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120418
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '17 at 13:21
Run Duration	433 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-4300-$73 55,454 User benchmarks, average bench 52% AM3r2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	60.1% Good	Memory 87.4 1-Core 65 2-Core 118 57% 90.1 Pts	4-Core 191 8-Core 201 26% 196 Pts	64-Core 200 12% 200 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	56.5% Above average	Lighting 70.5 Reflection 70.6 Parallax 61.2 58% 67.4 fps	MRender 69.3 Gravity 66.3 Splatting 65.3 55% 67 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 240GB 15,968 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 121GB free Firmware: SAFM01.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11119 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 55 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 889 (AD) Unknown 100 100 786486 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 35 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2783	77.2% Very good	Read 505 Write 437 Mixed 453 104% 465 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 52.7 4K Mixed 13.8 85% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 140 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 62 63% 103 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 99%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 203773938 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 13374528172357 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 45 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 34 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 44 73017327650 (C2) HDA temperature 34 44 73017327650 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 203773938 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 203773938 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 203773938 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 8589934593 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21109 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7472 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7472 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7238 (F4) Unknown 98 98 6357078	55% Above average	Read 499 Write 185 Mixed 197 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 14.1 4K Write 51.2 4K Mixed 12.3 64% 25.9 MB/s	DQ Read 114 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 42.8 50% 85.5 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 85%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 96GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 475 (03) Spinup time 140 138 3991 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4941 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 30 30 51602 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 334 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 226 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4714 (C2) HDA temperature 106 89 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	42.3% Average	Read 73.2 Write 74 Mixed 70.1 54% 72.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.46 101% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 69%
TRUSTED Mass Storage 17.5TB 307 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 10.5TB free, PID 4d10 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	16.1% Very poor	Read 24.6 Write 24 Mixed 23.8 31% 24.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.3 92% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 16.1% Great: 20%
TRUSTED Mass Storage 17.5TB 307 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 5.5TB free, PID 4d10 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	16.5% Very poor	Read 24 Write 26.5 Mixed 23.1 32% 24.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.22 88% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 16.5% Great: 20%
WDC WD30 EZRX-00D8PB0 3TB 99 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 2.5TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	57.3% Above average	Read 137 Write 140 Mixed 91.7 154% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.18 84% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 58%
WDC WD30 EZRX-00DC0B0 3TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 1TB free, PID 0561 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	44.3% Average	Read 118 Write 101 Mixed 71.6 119% 97 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.26 66% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 49%
ST3000VX 000-1CU166 3TB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	52% Above average	Read 136 Write 132 Mixed 87.3 148% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.19 45% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 57%
WDC WD32 00BEVT-00ZCT0 320GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 298GB free, PID 0561 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	28.6% Poor	Read 57.3 Write 65 Mixed 40.7 69% 54.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.33 80% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 28.6% Great: 21%
WDC WD20 EARX-32PASB0 2TB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 64GB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	25.1% Poor	Read 57.1 Write 58.2 Mixed 34.2 62% 49.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.16 52% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 25.1% Great: 40%
SAMSUNG HD204UI 2TB 61 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 6GB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	32.1% Below average	Read 63 Write 78.6 Mixed 61.8 89% 67.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.43 80% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 32.1% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16GB 70,565 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	45.4% Average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 11.9 MC Mixed 16.8 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 7.7 SC Mixed 12.1 28% 9.93 GB/s	Latency 70.1 57% 70.1 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 54%

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Gaming 32%

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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 $80Bench 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	85x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	31x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $499

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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