Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	67.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	58.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '17 at 19:00
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 4.6 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 81.2 2-Core 147 66% 107 Pts	4-Core 276 8-Core 495 46% 385 Pts	64-Core 498 31% 498 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Zotac(19DA 1438) CLim: 2138 MHz, MLim: 2289 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	67.4% Good	Lighting 84.4 Reflection 82.4 Parallax 71.9 69% 79.5 fps	MRender 81 Gravity 77.7 Splatting 78.9 65% 79.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 12,393 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1267 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 510 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 174 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1769524 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 106 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 73 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4211	58.8% Above average	Read 504 Write 269 Mixed 281 77% 351 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 35.3 4K Mixed 8.38 67% 22.7 MB/s	DQ Read 25.3 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 8.37 25% 51.5 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 58.8% Great: 91%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$497 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 492GB free Firmware: ST6OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 151 151 38677119392 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1082 (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 97 97 21724 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 949 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1953 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1953 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 240519348252 (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	47.7% Average	Read 85.7 Write 80.6 Mixed 87.5 64% 84.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.33 80% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GBH2X04F1AA28-15 2x8GB 4,851 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	53.4% Above average	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 16.5 MC Mixed 18.8 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 9.4 SC Mixed 13.9 33% 11.7 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 69%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 - $89

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	864x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	644x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	437x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	186x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	159x
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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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $358

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 $184	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) $35	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