Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


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 67.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	15.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	4.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 25 '16 at 14:49
Run Duration	322 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-6300-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	67.5% Good	Memory 90.3 1-Core 71.3 2-Core 142 62% 101 Pts	4-Core 247 8-Core 334 37% 290 Pts	64-Core 335 21% 335 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 250X 12,863 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Sapphire(174B E214) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.300.1025.1001 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	15.5% Very poor	Lighting 19.1 Reflection 18.9 Parallax 26.1 16% 21.4 fps	MRender 15.5 Gravity 18.4 Splatting 21.1 15% 18.3 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 15.5% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 155GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2540 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 119 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 70 64 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 33 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3439282766
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 562GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 49381797 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2413 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 339050721 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 39764 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2371 (B7) Unknown 1 1 444 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 42950459615 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 555483168 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 73014444064 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 22 49381797 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1458 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -58858231778889 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2820062479 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3438044853	57.5% Above average	Read 105 Write 95.6 Mixed 82.1 71% 94.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.39 86% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 68%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 528GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 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 184 167 3775 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 812 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16400 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 785 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 533 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 152 152 145044 (C2) HDA temperature 116 103 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	61.7% Good	Read 114 Write 101 Mixed 96.6 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.25 96% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 500GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 229294416 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 857 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 6009195 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17238 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 825 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 56 4884070433 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 581 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 45494 (C2) HDA temperature 33 44 -140737488355295 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 130897718294679 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14114040209 (F2) Unknown 100 253 59217576009	109% Outstanding	Read 208 Write 171 Mixed 134 128% 171 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.31 84% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 114%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 302GB free Firmware: 50.0AB50 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 198 161 5066 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2918 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 43795 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2838 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1690 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 152 152 146329 (C2) HDA temperature 120 101 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 200 199 5 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	41.6% Average	Read 77.1 Write 67.6 Mixed 74.6 55% 73.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.11 56% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 59%
ST2000DM 001-1CH164 2TB 185 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 932GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	11.6% Very poor	Read 8.81 Write 42.5 Mixed 6.04 28% 19.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.07 4K Write 0.34 4K Mixed 0.07 14% 0.16 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 11.6% Great: 72%
WDC WD10 EARS-00MVWB0 1TB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 161GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	38.9% Below average	Read 89.4 Write 97 Mixed 11.9 78% 66.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.17 60% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 46%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 C11 1x8GB 1,470 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	32.5% Below average	MC Read 11.5 MC Write 10.2 MC Mixed 9.4 30% 10.4 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 10.3 28% 9.77 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 32.5% Great: 33%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 - $89

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	865x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	645x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	438x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	186x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	160x
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	118x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	85x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	83x
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	55x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	50x

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Total price: $358

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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