Asus M5A97 LE R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 67.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	128% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	62.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	8.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	10.5 Days
Run Date	May 12 '21 at 20:13
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	67.9% Good	Memory 88.2 1-Core 74.4 2-Core 139 62% 100 Pts	4-Core 259 8-Core 463 43% 361 Pts	64-Core 454 28% 454 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6393) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 466.27 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	128% Outstanding	Lighting 176 Reflection 189 Parallax 180 143% 182 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 182 Splatting 129 120% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Torch LE 240GB 206 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 37GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM12.2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 219 62 28 78 49 14 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	62.8% Good	Read 446 Write 415 Mixed 325 SusWrite 74.9 70% 315 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 43.8 4K Mixed 26.7 92% 31.2 MB/s	DQ Read 286 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 165 150% 231 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 94%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 74GB free Firmware: Z22000RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 302 319 340 332 347 346 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	70.7% Very good	Read 457 Write 323 Mixed 242 SusWrite 331 76% 338 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 55.2 4K Mixed 13 81% 30.5 MB/s	DQ Read 166 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 82.9 94% 158 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 86%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 643GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 105 108 108 105 107 108 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	64.4% Good	Read 117 Write 104 Mixed 78.6 SusWrite 107 75% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1 191% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5403-427.A00LF 2x8GB 56 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1066 MHz clocked @ 533 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42.5% Average	MC Read 15.4 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 14.5 42% 14.8 GB/s	SC Read 9.5 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 12.2 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 69.4 58% 69.4 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 58%

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Gaming 21%

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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	425x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	387x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 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 $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 $179	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