Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 58% Gunboat	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 53.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	83% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (94%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

12 months ago, 12 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	18.4 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130711
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 08 '23 at 00:58
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	94%

PC Performing as expected (48^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 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	53.3% Above average	Memory 80.7 1-Core 53.3 2-Core 85.7 49% 73.2 Pts	4-Core 146 8-Core 188 21% 167 Pts	64-Core 192 12% 192 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 6700 3,011 User benchmarks, average bench 108% XFX(1EAE 661A) ≥ 4GB Ram: 10GB, Driver: 23.5.2 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 120 Parallax 226 88% 151 fps	MRender 203 Gravity 112 Splatting 0.4 74% 105 fps
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 112%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$29 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 202GB free (System drive) Firmware: 15.01H15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 4.5 8.4 25 43 34 21 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile)	8.86% Terrible	Read 8.2 Write 9.7 Mixed 10.7 SusWrite 22.6 10% 12.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 0.1 4K Mixed 0.2 41% 0.23 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 8.86% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4GBXL F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 24GB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	43.2% Average	MC Read 19 MC Write 12.7 MC Mixed 15 44% 15.6 GB/s	SC Read 9.2 SC Write 7.7 SC Mixed 10.8 26% 9.23 GB/s	Latency 79.2 50% 79.2 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 43.2% Great: 59%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

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	442x

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 $76Bench 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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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $354

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16