Asus M5A97 LE R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 52% Yacht	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 54.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	9.79% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	8.8 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	8.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '18 at 21:41
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	54.5% Above average	Memory 76 1-Core 56.8 2-Core 110 51% 81 Pts	4-Core 185 8-Core 231 27% 208 Pts	64-Core 225 14% 225 Pts
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Gigabyte(1458 3536) 1GB CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1025 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	9.79% Terrible	Lighting 11 Reflection 12.8 Parallax 9.19 9% 11 fps	MRender 15.1 Gravity 11.3 Splatting 14.9 11% 13.8 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.79% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung HD502HI 500GB-$154 24,344 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 411GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 1 33 (03) Spinup time 93 93 3090 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4081 (05) Reallocated sector count 53 53 689 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19562 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 80 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4041 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 1 33 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 221507 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 59 454426651 (C2) HDA temperature 73 56 471203867 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 5165377 (C4) Reallocation count 83 83 689 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 97 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 89 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	49.5% Average	Read 87.3 Write 85.1 Mixed 84.3 64% 85.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.37 90% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 59%
Samsung M3 Portable 1TB 17,632 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 447GB free, PID 61b6 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	37.5% Below average	Read 84.6 Write 90.5 Mixed 74 107% 83 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.33 73% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 37.5% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10 CMV4GX3M1A1333C9 12GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 1066, 1066 MHz 8192, 4096 MB Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	23.9% Poor	MC Read 8.1 MC Write 7.8 MC Mixed 6.7 22% 7.53 GB/s	SC Read 6.3 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 8 21% 7.43 GB/s	Latency 88.3 45% 88.3 ns
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 23.9% Great: 44%

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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 $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	428x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	389x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	203x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	108x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	67x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	66x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	51x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	36x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	46x
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: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $377

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16