Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 75%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	5.67% 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	85.6% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	7.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20140407
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '18 at 06:58
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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-$175 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75% Very good	Memory 93.7 1-Core 79.4 2-Core 158 67% 110 Pts	4-Core 305 8-Core 479 48% 392 Pts	64-Core 486 30% 486 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5770 37,602 User benchmarks, average bench 10% XFX(1682 2990) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	5.67% Terrible	Lighting 7.43 Reflection 5.58 Parallax 6.12 6% 6.38 fps	MRender 5.48 Gravity 5.33 Splatting 6.87 5% 5.89 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 5.67% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 480GB-$84 9,168 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 416GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 19332 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1450 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 83 (AE) Unknown 100 100 449 (B4) Unknown 0 0 8219 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 58 180388626457 (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 65 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 44640419423 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1405329898 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1261907283	85.6% Excellent	Read 434 Write 346 Mixed 397 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 36.6 139% 59.3 MB/s	DQ Read 67.3 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 57.5 54% 82.7 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 100%
Seagate ST8000DM0004-1ZC11G 8TB 186 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 4TB free Firmware: DN01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 78 64 70702378 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 9541871 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -2443836391315 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 75 69 488046617 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 761 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 108 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 64424509465 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 12 12 70702378 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -79426830204892 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7731046192 (F2) Unknown 100 253 46332850
Poor: 36% Great: 104%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 596GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 879387 (03) Spinup time 165 154 4741 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8236 (05) Reallocated sector count 42 42 1259 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21844 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8215 (C0) Power-off retract count 196 196 3566 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8236 (C2) HDA temperature 118 95 29 (C4) Reallocation count 1 1 995 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 187 6 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 188 188 1321 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 188 188 1589 (F0) Head flying hours 72 72 20820 (F1) Unknown 200 200 60566963824 (F2) Unknown 200 200 74331414204	40.6% Average	Read 72.9 Write 68.6 Mixed 72.9 54% 71.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 0.44 4K Mixed 0.19 49% 0.37 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 62%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 466GB free Firmware: 0002BSM1 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 86 225796841 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3179 (05) Reallocated sector count 82 82 382 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 201487472 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16842 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3105 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 805 (BC) Unknown 100 96 34360263090 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 55 504692760 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 160 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 141 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 44 44 112454 (C2) HDA temperature 24 45 34359738392 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 51 43 225796841 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	42.2% Average	Read 74.9 Write 72.1 Mixed 64.4 53% 70.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 0.58 4K Mixed 0.34 66% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 42.2% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 3,407 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	52.7% Above average	MC Read 22 MC Write 16 MC Mixed 18.5 54% 18.8 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 13.6 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 60.5 66% 60.5 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 71%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

Raft

Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 - $200

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	564x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	138x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	67x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	62x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	59x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	41x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	40x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	33x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	37x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	24x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	18x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $610

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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