Asus M5A87

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 58% Gunboat	Workstation 9% 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 an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 56.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	13.4% 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	47.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A87 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110809
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '18 at 00:18
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	9%

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 Phenom II X6 1055T-$175 23,835 User benchmarks, average bench 54% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	56.3% Above average	Memory 82.6 1-Core 48.1 2-Core 95.4 49% 75.4 Pts	4-Core 164 8-Core 245 26% 205 Pts	64-Core 247 15% 247 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 61%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 5,537 User benchmarks, average bench 16% Nvidia(10DE 079F) 1GB CLim: 607 MHz, MLim: 837 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	13.4% Very poor	Lighting 15.4 Reflection 23.2 Parallax 16.8 12% 18.5 fps	MRender 25.7 Gravity 12.2 Splatting 18.3 15% 18.7 fps
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 13.4% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Micron C400 RealSSD 128GB 11,312 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^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 42204 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 864 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 26 (AC) Unknown 100 100 146 (AD) Unknown 90 90 306 (AE) Unknown 100 100 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 23145684733628 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 89 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 90 90 10 (CE) Flying height 100 100 26	47.3% Average	Read 345 Write 185 Mixed 245 57% 258 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 58.1 4K Mixed 4.48 72% 28.6 MB/s	DQ Read 17.6 DQ Write 95.6 DQ Mixed 4.52 19% 39.2 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 47.3% Great: 70%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 2TB-$78 30,011 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 699GB free Firmware: MK7OA840 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 88 (03) Spinup time 126 126 42984079823 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 845 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 125 125 30 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 39278 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 714 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 885 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 885 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 236224249892 (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 200 200 0	71.9% Very good	Read 117 Write 134 Mixed 105 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.36 100% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 82%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32.7% Below average	MC Read 14.3 MC Write 6.7 MC Mixed 12.3 32% 11.1 GB/s	SC Read 7.4 SC Write 6.4 SC Mixed 9.6 22% 7.8 GB/s	Latency 75.9 53% 75.9 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 32.7% Great: 61%

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

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A87

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	10x
FX-8120AMDBench 56%, 25,690 samples	7x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	7x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	6x
Radeon HD 6770AMDBench 10%, 16,639 samples	5x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	5x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	7x
TOSHIBA-TR200 240GBBench 71%, 36,832 samples	5x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	5x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	28x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	15x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	10x

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Total price: $217

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) $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