Asus H97M-E

Performance Results


Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	2.61% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	113% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Motherboard	Asus H97M-E (all builds)
Memory	5.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150515
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '18 at 20:34
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3-$65 19,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	79.7% Very good	Memory 91.2 1-Core 114 2-Core 225 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 368 8-Core 571 58% 470 Pts	64-Core 564 35% 564 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS 2,598 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Device(0000 0000) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	2.61% Terrible	Lighting 2.73 Reflection 5.35 Parallax 0.97 2% 3.02 fps	MRender 6.14 Gravity 1.9 Splatting 4.3 3% 4.12 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 2.61% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 238GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4286 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1566 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (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 71 60 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 67 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18511653339	113% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 412 Mixed 414 99% 447 MB/s	4K Read 45 4K Write 95.4 4K Mixed 43 174% 61.1 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 27.1 102% 227 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Samsung HD322GJ 320GB 9,769 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 48GB free Firmware: 1AR10001 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 12 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 83 82 5338 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3355 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8461 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2747 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 1678154 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 64 133144444949 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 15 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 28568	60.7% Good	Read 95.7 Write 115 Mixed 107 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.34 4K Mixed 0.61 141% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 81%
Samsung HD320KJ 320GB 3,147 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 38GB free Firmware: CP100-11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5632 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14437 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15218 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5444 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 674534 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 16 (BE) vendor-specific 73 68 27 (C2) HDA temperature 157 142 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 674534 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 8	29.9% Poor	Read 44.9 Write 59.1 Mixed 60 41% 54.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.33 80% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 29.9% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 2,517 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	33.4% Below average	MC Read 11.4 MC Write 10.8 MC Mixed 8.9 30% 10.4 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 12.1 SC Mixed 11 32% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 65.5 61% 65.5 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 33.4% Great: 62%

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Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 65%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus H97M-E - $99

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	585x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	388x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	305x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	199x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	192x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	159x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	70x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	68x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	64x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	107x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	63x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 27,462 samples	43x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $277

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $179	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