Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 64% Destroyer	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 66.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	8.93% 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	99.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	20.3 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 11 '18 at 16:07
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	66.2% Good	Memory 84.6 1-Core 71.9 2-Core 142 61% 99.5 Pts	4-Core 259 8-Core 427 42% 343 Pts	64-Core 427 26% 427 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 250E 10,952 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Sapphire(174B E213) 1GB CLim: 800 MHz, MLim: 1125 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 18.3.2 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	8.93% Terrible	Lighting 10 Reflection 13.6 Parallax 13.6 8% 12.4 fps	MRender 11.6 Gravity 9.03 Splatting 16.1 10% 12.2 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 8.93% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 188GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8248 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 214 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 52 46 48 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16313876752	99.5% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 377 Mixed 407 96% 430 MB/s	4K Read 41.4 4K Write 63.4 4K Mixed 42.7 151% 49.2 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 95.3 103% 175 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 134%
Toshiba X300 4TB-$146 23,740 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 1.5TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7071 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 827 (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 94 94 2542 (0A) Spinup retry count 116 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 419 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1002 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 274879152179 (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 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 98 98 828 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 542 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	86.1% Excellent	Read 144 Write 155 Mixed 145 112% 148 MB/s	4K Read 2.3 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.35 176% 1.62 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 104%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 64 43459735 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4935 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 309996584 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 -81501299396987 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 285 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 90 12946441136 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 47 723320875 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 3814 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 48035 (C2) HDA temperature 43 53 47244640299 (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 89206470741992 (F1) Unknown 100 253 49114261471 (F2) Unknown 100 253 81812416246	55.1% Above average	Read 103 Write 88.8 Mixed 111 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 96%
WD Blue 250GB (2008)-$80 11,055 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 140GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 175 2208 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6407 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 1 1 87256 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 632 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 378 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 632 (C2) HDA temperature 94 84 49 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	48.4% Average	Read 88.8 Write 79.4 Mixed 75.3 61% 81.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.35 100% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 61%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 74GB free Firmware: 51.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 109 98 7525 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7319 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 29 29 52217 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 415 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 276 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 102 102 296534 (C2) HDA temperature 102 91 45 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	38.8% Below average	Read 71.6 Write 63.2 Mixed 59.5 49% 64.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.18 69% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMY16GX3M2A2400C11 CMY16GX3M2A2400C11 24GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	44% Average	MC Read 17.2 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 14.9 45% 15.6 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 7.8 SC Mixed 12.2 29% 10 GB/s	Latency 72.5 55% 72.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 44% Great: 44%

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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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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