Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 68.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	84.8% 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	66.6% 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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 09 '17 at 00:52
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (74^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 4.45 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	68.5% Good	Memory 89 1-Core 76.6 2-Core 149 64% 105 Pts	4-Core 269 8-Core 336 39% 302 Pts	64-Core 358 22% 358 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4992) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 109 Parallax 98.3 89% 106 fps	MRender 93 Gravity 98.4 Splatting 88.9 76% 93.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 39GB free Firmware: 2.06 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 80 4306545665 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -79289391246109 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1584 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 102 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4306545665 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4306545665 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4306545665 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 -90829968375708 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5327 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3621 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3621 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5400	32.6% Below average	Read 195 Write 103 Mixed 121 31% 140 MB/s	4K Read 22.2 4K Write 12.2 4K Mixed 12 56% 15.5 MB/s	DQ Read 63 DQ Write 27 DQ Mixed 37.4 30% 42.5 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 32.6% Great: 61%
I-flashd isk K8 64GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 3GB free (System drive) Firmware: O122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 321 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 114 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 387 (A3) Unknown 100 100 12 (A4) Unknown 100 100 25801 (A5) Unknown 100 100 66 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 19 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 29 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 34136 (F2) Unknown 100 100 39610 (F5) Unknown 100 100 51602	66.6% Good	Read 455 Write 149 Mixed 223 60% 275 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 61.6 4K Mixed 27 104% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 59.2 74% 132 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 79%
Fujitsu MHZ2320BH G2 320GB 3,061 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 241GB free Firmware: 0000 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 43 99273 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 57344000 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 18452 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8177624023189 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 3976 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 15432 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 14975 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 197 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 211297 (C2) HDA temperature 100 1 386547646498 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 716 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 39067386005 (C5) Current pending sector count 91 91 10 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 86 86 28 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 27234 (CB) Run out cancel 100 100 433711220243 (F0) Head flying hours 200 200 0	29.7% Poor	Read 51.7 Write 51.4 Mixed 51.3 39% 51.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.3 81% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 29.7% Great: 35%
Hitachi HTS545016B9A300 160GB-$30 3,506 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 75GB free Firmware: PBBO Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 211 211 64424509441 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1000 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 11772 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 928 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 113 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 70 70 308206 (C2) HDA temperature 203 203 201864118299 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 10 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 13 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	27.9% Poor	Read 51.3 Write 45.9 Mixed 45.3 36% 47.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.26 62% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 27.9% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 9U5471-032.A00LF 4x4GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (91^st percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	47.2% Average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 14 MC Mixed 16.2 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 8.4 SC Mixed 12.4 30% 10.4 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 47%

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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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Total price: $358

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Intel Core i5-12600K $169	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $135
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $75
Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $369