Asus M5A97 PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 52% Yacht


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 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 66.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	93.5% 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	77.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 PLUS (all builds)
Memory	20.6 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160415
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 27 '18 at 01:25
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	1%

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-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	66.6% Good	Memory 84.8 1-Core 71.9 2-Core 142 61% 99.7 Pts	4-Core 262 8-Core 431 42% 347 Pts	64-Core 433 27% 433 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Gigabyte(1458 3794) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	93.5% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 135 Parallax 113 98% 123 fps	MRender 93.7 Gravity 116 Splatting 100 84% 103 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 18GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 486 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 125 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 58 53 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7804781868	77.5% Very good	Read 489 Write 376 Mixed 396 94% 420 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 50.2 4K Mixed 20.6 104% 34.9 MB/s	DQ Read 88.6 DQ Write 99 DQ Mixed 51 50% 79.6 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 124%
Hitachi HDT725050VLA360 500GB-$159 3,335 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 96GB free Firmware: V56OA7EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 97 97 42983227904 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2488 (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 93 93 52031 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1019 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4610 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4610 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 261993791524 (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 200 253 0	31.9% Below average	Read 60.3 Write 50.7 Mixed 60 43% 57 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.34 83% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 31.9% Great: 40%
Maxtor STM3320820AS 320GB 4,234 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 17GB free Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 101 85 23950424 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13370 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 55 1546974639209 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26927 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4406 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 40 589234211 (C2) HDA temperature 35 60 42949672995 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 63 52 64160735 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	28.1% Poor	Read 45.2 Write 52.5 Mixed 41.5 35% 46.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.28 70% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 28.1% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/8GX Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 KHX1600C9D3/8GX Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 24GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	48.1% Average	MC Read 19.3 MC Write 15.2 MC Mixed 17.2 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 13.3 31% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 72.1 56% 72.1 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 50%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 PLUS

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	25x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	23x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	16x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	16x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	14x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	7x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	12x
128GB 128GBXraydiskBench 63%, 994 samples	5x
Green 240GB (2018)WD $35Bench 45%, 156,194 samples	5x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	13x
KHX1600C10D3/8G 9905584-022.A00LF KHX1600C10D3/8G 9905584-022.A00LF 16GBKingstonBench 51%, 10 samples	5x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 1x8GBKingstonBench 31%, 37,489 samples	4x

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Total price: $252

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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