Asus M5A97 EVO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 3% Tree trunk	Desktop 36% Jet ski	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (32nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 68 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 36.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	9% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (48%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 EVO (all builds)
Memory	6.9 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121016
Uptime	8.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 16 '18 at 02:58
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	48%

PC Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6200 Six-Core-$40 5,908 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 1.35 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	36.2% Below average	Memory 63.3 1-Core 18.7 2-Core 36.6 30% 39.5 Pts	4-Core 52.7 8-Core 69.2 8% 60.9 Pts	64-Core 67.8 4% 67.8 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 36.2% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-$112 69,673 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Nvidia(10DE 0973) 1GB CLim: 1110 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	9% Terrible	Lighting 10.1 Reflection 9.23 Parallax 12 8% 10.4 fps	MRender 13.9 Gravity 12.5 Splatting 12.5 11% 13 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST1000VM002-1CT162 1TB 39,407 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 817GB free (System drive) Firmware: SC23 SusWrite @10s intervals: 86 60 81 74 119 80 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	Read 102 Write 134 Mixed 47.5 SusWrite 83.1 67% 91.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.6 112% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 98%
WD WD1002FBYS-02A6B0 1TB 28,278 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 30GB free Firmware: 03.00C09 SusWrite @10s intervals: 84 87 87 79 61 60 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	50.2% Above average	Read 98.2 Write 92.3 Mixed 61.2 SusWrite 76.3 60% 82 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1 187% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 12GB 85,415 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 1066, 1066 MHz 4096, 8192 MB Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	19.7% Very poor	MC Read 7 MC Write 6.7 MC Mixed 6.5 19% 6.73 GB/s	SC Read 2.6 SC Write 4.8 SC Mixed 5.3 12% 4.23 GB/s	Latency 118 34% 118 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 19.7% Great: 50%

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

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 EVO - $69

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	15x
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 51%, 41,403 samples	10x
FX-8120AMDBench 56%, 25,690 samples	10x

GPU
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	5x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	5x
HD 6870AMDBench 15%, 25,443 samples	4x

SSD
SSD Plus 120GBSanDisk $42Bench 58%, 87,912 samples	4x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	4x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	3x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	37x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	18x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	8x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $360

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