Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


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 66.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	19.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	94.9% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Jan 31 '17 at 17:39
Run Duration	398 Seconds
Run User	USA-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-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	66.1% Good	Memory 89.5 1-Core 65.7 2-Core 131 60% 95.4 Pts	4-Core 232 8-Core 388 38% 310 Pts	64-Core 396 24% 396 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 750-Ti-$92 309,423 User benchmarks, average bench 17% EVGA(3842 3753) CLim: 1450 MHz, MLim: 1350 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	19.8% Very poor	Lighting 24.7 Reflection 18.9 Parallax 22.8 20% 22.1 fps	MRender 26.9 Gravity 26.4 Splatting 19.2 19% 24.2 fps
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 19.8% Great: 19%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4554 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 229 (B1) Unknown 98 98 22 (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 69 54 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 98 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11984336636	94.9% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 390 Mixed 409 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 41.5 4K Write 65.2 4K Mixed 32.9 140% 46.5 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 76.2 88% 153 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 7GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12043 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 632 (B1) Unknown 98 98 34 (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 44 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 98 98 1036 (EB) Unknown 99 99 153 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10279078556	96.4% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 387 Mixed 414 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 41.5 4K Write 67.3 4K Mixed 34.1 142% 47.6 MB/s	DQ Read 251 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 84.6 96% 166 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 41GB free Firmware: 01.0 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 172 2141 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3032 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17957 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1081 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 632 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2402 (C2) HDA temperature 119 93 24 (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	58.4% Above average	Read 113 Write 90.3 Mixed 94.8 75% 99.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.3 102% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 109%
Seagate ST320LT020-9YG14 320GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 13GB free Firmware: 0003 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 99654840 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5667 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 197155214 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25786 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1276 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 17180197084 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 41 30502223895 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 66 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 79 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 469835 (C2) HDA temperature 23 59 64424509463 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 42 99654840 (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 63479616647861 (F1) Unknown 100 253 214723035 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1170487772 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 1 812 (FB) Unknown 100 1 1625 (FC) Unknown 100 1 687 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	15.5% Very poor	Read 26.3 Write 27.7 Mixed 26.6 20% 26.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 0.28 4K Mixed 0.12 34% 0.26 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 15.5% Great: 51%
Seagate Expansion Desk 5TB 696 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4.5TB free, PID 331a Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	74.3% Very good	Read 163 Write 121 Mixed 81.8 144% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 7.83 4K Mixed 0.69 293% 3.16 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 76%
SanDisk Cruzer Edge 16GB 6,219 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 1GB free, PID 556b Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	11.4% Very poor	Read 34.5 Write 4.94 Mixed 9.62 15% 16.3 MB/s	4K Read 3.84 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.69 86% 1.98 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 11.4% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.7% Average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 17.3 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 10.7 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 11.4 29% 10 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 72%

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Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 - $89

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	871x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	646x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	440x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	187x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	160x
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	120x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	84x
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: 71% - Very good

Total price: $354

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16