Asus M5A97 EVO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 54% Yacht	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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 58%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	8.21% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 EVO (all builds)
Memory	15.5 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1280 x 800 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121016
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 05 '18 at 16:54
Run Duration	376 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6100-$68 44,863 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	58% Above average	Memory 81.9 1-Core 62.7 2-Core 112 54% 85.4 Pts	4-Core 191 8-Core 245 28% 218 Pts	64-Core 244 15% 244 Pts
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 783 MHz, MLim: 850 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 372.70 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	8.21% Terrible	Lighting 9.53 Reflection 11.2 Parallax 8 8% 9.56 fps	MRender 12.7 Gravity 10.1 Splatting 10.7 9% 11.2 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 8.21% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$71 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: JKAOA3MA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 14 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 101 (03) Spinup time 151 151 21503476235 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1039 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 35 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 26583 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 265 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1071 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1071 (C2) HDA temperature 127 127 287763726383 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	48% Average	Read 81.8 Write 85.4 Mixed 78.1 62% 81.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.33 79% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 69%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 9GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 81 81 6530 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 1911 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 15252 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 258 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 55 656801830 (C2) HDA temperature 62 53 656801830 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 206977 (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 100 100 67 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 13 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	31.3% Below average	Read 59.9 Write 49 Mixed 52.7 41% 53.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.39 91% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 31.3% Great: 58%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 3TB 3,868 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 2TB free, PID a202 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	47.4% Average	Read 112 Write 115 Mixed 73.3 126% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.17 73% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 53%
ST375052 8AS 750GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 113GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	14.8% Very poor	Read 30.5 Write 28.9 Mixed 7.82 26% 22.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.44 60% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 14.8% Great: 32%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 2TB 3,591 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 71GB free, PID b207 Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	29.4% Poor	Read 66 Write 66.8 Mixed 22.6 62% 51.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.16 64% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 29.4% Great: 51%
Seagate FreeAgent 1.5TB 1,031 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 29GB free, PID 3008 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	13.8% Very poor	Read 26.3 Write 25.9 Mixed 18.4 30% 23.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.34 60% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 13.8% Great: 20%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 1,268 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 17GB free, PID b206 Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	24.2% Poor	Read 56.9 Write 53.2 Mixed 36 60% 48.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.17 55% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 24.2% Great: 45%
WD USB Elements Device 250GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 5GB free, PID 6031 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	12% Very poor	Read 26.1 Write 25.3 Mixed 5.89 22% 19.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 0.85 4K Mixed 0.3 41% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 12% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 24GB 14,716 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	42.5% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 13.3 MC Mixed 15.2 43% 15.1 GB/s	SC Read 7.8 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 11.9 27% 9.43 GB/s	Latency 77 52% 77 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 72%

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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 $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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16