Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 36% Jet ski	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 72.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	91.3% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	4.6 GB free of 6 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 09 '17 at 10:00
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	BGR-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8300-$168 49,767 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.6% Very good	Memory 94.7 1-Core 76.6 2-Core 154 66% 108 Pts	4-Core 274 8-Core 421 43% 347 Pts	64-Core 422 26% 422 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% EVGA(3842 6162) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2282 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.3% Good	Lighting 78 Reflection 75.5 Parallax 69.2 64% 74.2 fps	MRender 81.1 Gravity 74 Splatting 75.7 63% 76.9 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 202GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 744 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 608 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 60 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 318 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2628884469	91.3% Outstanding	Read 493 Write 385 Mixed 413 96% 430 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 38.7 4K Mixed 39.9 118% 36.3 MB/s	DQ Read 281 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 118 122% 201 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 124%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 588GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 92 62288056 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5859 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 120 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 4615167353 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12965 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7783 (B7) Unknown 88 88 12 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 204 (BC) Unknown 100 98 111671115994 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 51 622329892 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 3130 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21547 (C2) HDA temperature 36 49 60129542180 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 108336255095992 (F1) Unknown 100 253 46165588863 (F2) Unknown 100 253 58464627572	74.1% Very good	Read 130 Write 126 Mixed 131 98% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 5.46 4K Mixed 0.95 239% 2.39 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5474-028.A00LF 9905474-001.A00LF 9905474-001.A00LF 6GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 1024, 1024 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	42.4% Average	MC Read 16.4 MC Write 14.1 MC Mixed 12.2 41% 14.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.2 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 11.4 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 57.9 69% 57.9 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 42.4% Great: 52%

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

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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	872x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	648x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	441x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	187x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	160x
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	120x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	84x
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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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $354

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $95	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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