Asus M5A97

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 47% Yacht


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. 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 65.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	87.3% 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	78% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 (all builds)
Memory	9.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120418
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 24 '18 at 07:53
Run Duration	360 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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-8150-$770 22,181 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AM3r2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	65.4% Good	Memory 85.1 1-Core 68 2-Core 136 59% 96.5 Pts	4-Core 248 8-Core 390 39% 319 Pts	64-Core 392 24% 392 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 66%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 390.65 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	87.3% Excellent	Lighting 89.8 Reflection 125 Parallax 185 73% 133 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 174 Splatting 128 115% 141 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 21GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 30852 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 263 (B1) Unknown 83 83 585 (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 72 61 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 1 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13358943488	86.7% Excellent	Read 498 Write 457 Mixed 316 94% 424 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 62.9 4K Mixed 23.1 107% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 157 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 68.5 75% 125 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 110%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 30866 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 264 (B1) Unknown 82 82 628 (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 69 59 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 1 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13440529176	78% Very good	Read 493 Write 325 Mixed 287 81% 368 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 62.2 4K Mixed 22.3 105% 37.8 MB/s	DQ Read 153 DQ Write 166 DQ Mixed 59.2 72% 126 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 110%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 892GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 72 (03) Spinup time 129 129 21493973287 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1352 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 14864 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 40 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1352 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1352 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 158915100704 (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 200 200 0	88.2% Excellent	Read 154 Write 153 Mixed 35.3 83% 114 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.23 112% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 108%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 194GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 66 63 10449 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1886 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 39165 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 752 (B5) Unknown 100 100 20007237 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 141 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 64 154619936792 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 8 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1894	60.7% Good	Read 100 Write 111 Mixed 78.6 72% 96.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.4 102% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 72%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 140GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 163 163 6808 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18416 (05) Reallocated sector count 182 182 137 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 5 5 69355 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1200 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 18413 (C2) HDA temperature 124 103 26 (C4) Reallocation count 189 189 11 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 9 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 7 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	38.6% Below average	Read 67.1 Write 67 Mixed 58.4 48% 64.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.33 91% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 57%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 8GB 9,902 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 6GB free, PID 6545 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	5.55% Terrible	Read 20.1 Write 6.85 Mixed 7.63 12% 11.5 MB/s	4K Read 4.72 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.004 18% 1.58 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.55% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16GB 70,565 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	48.8% Average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 17 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 9.7 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 13.2 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 71.9 56% 71.9 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 54%

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Gaming 32%

Sail boat

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 26%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 - $89

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	52x
FX-4100AMD $110Bench 51%, 32,471 samples	43x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	41x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	11x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	133x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	85x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	31x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $499

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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