Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 71.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	61% 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

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 17 '17 at 21:18
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6100-$68 44,863 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 4.85 GHz, turbo 4.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.9% Very good	Memory 91.2 1-Core 84.1 2-Core 169 69% 115 Pts	4-Core 290 8-Core 387 43% 339 Pts	64-Core 386 24% 386 Pts
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Device(0000 0000) 3GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2055 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (100^th percentile) - Disable monitor sync before benchmarking (75 fps cap detected)	60.7% Good	Lighting 74.6 Reflection 74.5 Parallax 64.5 61% 71.2 fps	MRender 73.8 Gravity 71.9 Splatting 75.2 60% 73.6 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2278 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1772 (B1) Unknown 85 85 74 (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 65 51 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 4 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1262 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14655891302	61% Good	Read 458 Write 258 Mixed 260 72% 325 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 36.6 4K Mixed 13.6 87% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 35.8 DQ Write 43.4 DQ Mixed 13.5 17% 30.9 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 603GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 97 201085256 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7841 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 624208724 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 22877 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6998 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 4 4 96 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295163976 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 69 49 522125343 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 5277 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 31 31 138823 (C2) HDA temperature 31 51 51539607583 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 47 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 1529008377595 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11540336430218 (F2) Unknown 100 253 32638522611642	94.7% Outstanding	Read 154 Write 177 Mixed 141 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.37 98% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown SRT4G86U1-P9H Corsair CML8GX3M2A1600C9 SRT4G86U1-P9H Corsair CML8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	55.6% Above average	MC Read 23 MC Write 17.5 MC Mixed 19.8 57% 20.1 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 10.7 SC Mixed 15.4 34% 12 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 50%

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

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Gaming 23%

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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	865x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	644x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	437x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	186x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	159x
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	118x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	85x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	83x
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	55x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	50x

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Total price: $358

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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