Asus P5Q-E

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 57% Gunboat	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 58.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	8.69% 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	70.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P5Q-E (all builds)
Memory	6.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20090406
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 23 '18 at 21:48
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon X5470 1,638 User benchmarks, average bench 54% LGA 775, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.35 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	58.1% Above average	Memory 75.4 1-Core 60.6 2-Core 120 52% 85.4 Pts	4-Core 237 8-Core 240 32% 238 Pts	64-Core 240 15% 240 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI HD 4870 22,563 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Sapphire(174B E810) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.7000 Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	8.69% Terrible	Lighting 10.8 Reflection 10.1 Parallax 7.5 9% 9.46 fps	MRender 8.24 Gravity 6.73 Splatting 14.3 8% 9.77 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 8.69% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 101GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3041 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1723 (B1) Unknown 98 98 31 (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 50 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 179 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12517245551	70.6% Very good	Read 266 Write 212 Mixed 219 52% 232 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 56.9 4K Mixed 35.8 128% 42.2 MB/s	DQ Read 194 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 84.5 87% 143 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 568GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 173 2175 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3158 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3015 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1639 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 431 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2726 (C2) HDA temperature 113 99 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 3246 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	81.3% Excellent	Read 151 Write 132 Mixed 125 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.71 4K Mixed 0.26 110% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR2 Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	25.5% Poor	MC Read 8.3 MC Write 8.5 MC Mixed 7.9 24% 8.23 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 7.8 SC Mixed 8.3 22% 7.57 GB/s	Latency 89.6 45% 89.6 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 25.5% Great: 45%

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Typical P5Q-E Builds (Compare 194 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 50%

Yacht

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus P5Q-E

CPU
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $161Bench 49%, 34,093 samples	55x
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	18x
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $89Bench 40%, 68,540 samples	16x

GPU
HD 4870ATIBench 9%, 22,563 samples	14x
GeForce GT 610NvidiaBench 2%, 62,458 samples	7x
GeForce GT 720NvidiaBench 4%, 15,510 samples	6x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	13x
Q300 120GBToshibaBench 70%, 1,888 samples	7x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	6x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	129x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	24x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	14x

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Value: 52% - Above average

Total price: $189

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