Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 74%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	95.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	35.8% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130116
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Jun 15 '18 at 00:22
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370 Special Edition Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	74% Very good	Memory 89.7 1-Core 82.7 2-Core 161 67% 111 Pts	4-Core 315 8-Core 500 50% 407 Pts	64-Core 502 31% 502 Pts

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1702 MHz, MLim: 2092 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 128 Parallax 114 100% 121 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 110 Splatting 104 87% 106 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HP S700 120GB-$30 4,522 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: Q0330B1 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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1014 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 980 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 68 (AE) Unknown 100 100 580 (B0) Unknown 100 100 98 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 37 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 18 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 134257 (F2) Unknown 100 100 258742 (F3) Unknown 100 100 173910	35.8% Below average	Read 499 Write 11.9 Mixed 222 52% 244 MB/s	4K Read 19.7 4K Write 35.7 4K Mixed 3.22 53% 19.5 MB/s	DQ Read 23.8 DQ Write 2.14 DQ Mixed 3.5 5% 9.82 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 35.8% Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 112GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 125291168 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2743 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 46 45 13336035246070 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7728 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1700 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 73015558183 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 43 1576656961560 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2273 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29064 (C2) HDA temperature 24 57 64424509464 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 21732534524466 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22544503274 (F2) Unknown 100 253 36795802653	98.2% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 167 Mixed 98.6 109% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.22 85% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5474-028.A00LF 99U5584-005.A00LF 99U5474-028.A00LF 9905471-006.A00LF 16GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	45.7% Average	MC Read 17.1 MC Write 15.5 MC Mixed 15.5 46% 16 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 9.4 SC Mixed 13 31% 10.9 GB/s	Latency 67.6 59% 67.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 46%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 - $166

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	227x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	102x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	41x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	30x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	27x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	29x
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	21x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	22x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	12x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	12x

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Total price: $512

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16