Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 63% Destroyer	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 58.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	16.8% 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	58.6% 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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	2.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 02 '17 at 04:36
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing below expectations (38^th 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 1090T-$240 23,506 User benchmarks, average bench 57% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	58.5% Above average	Memory 83.6 1-Core 52.4 2-Core 105 52% 80.3 Pts	4-Core 183 8-Core 274 28% 229 Pts	64-Core 278 17% 278 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6870 25,443 User benchmarks, average bench 15% Asus(1043 03C6) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	16.8% Very poor	Lighting 22.6 Reflection 15.6 Parallax 21.5 18% 19.9 fps	MRender 12.6 Gravity 15.5 Splatting 20 14% 16 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 16.8% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB-$181 1,826 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 174GB free (System drive) Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5363035 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 126306398250578 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3042 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 72 (B1) Unknown 0 0 164 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 33 48 34362884129 (C2) HDA temperature 33 48 34362884129 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5363035 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5363035 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5363035 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 89 89 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 54707 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8956 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8956 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6811	58.6% Above average	Read 477 Write 299 Mixed 334 82% 370 MB/s	4K Read 16.1 4K Write 51.3 4K Mixed 11.1 66% 26.2 MB/s	DQ Read 29.1 DQ Write 64.8 DQ Mixed 10.8 18% 34.9 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 90%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 37GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3419573 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 38981123208242 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4096 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 281 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3419573 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3419573 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3419573 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5264 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3634 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3634 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5943	49% Average	Read 476 Write 158 Mixed 230 63% 288 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 38.4 4K Mixed 9.24 65% 23.1 MB/s	DQ Read 23 DQ Write 52.9 DQ Mixed 9.32 15% 28.4 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 82%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 776GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 2241 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5267 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7587 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3026 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5205 (C2) HDA temperature 119 108 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	83.4% Excellent	Read 161 Write 130 Mixed 126 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 1.15 4K Write 0.56 4K Mixed 0.4 102% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 109%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 486GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 239 165 3016 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12405 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 34928 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3270 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 201 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 126 126 224524 (C2) HDA temperature 125 98 25 (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 82 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	40.8% Average	Read 73.1 Write 69.2 Mixed 73.2 54% 71.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 0.36 4K Mixed 0.2 59% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4GBXL F3-12800CL8-4GBXM F3-12800CL9-4GBXL F3-12800CL8-4GBXM 16GB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	33.5% Below average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 6.8 MC Mixed 12.8 32% 11.4 GB/s	SC Read 7.5 SC Write 6.4 SC Mixed 10.2 23% 8.03 GB/s	Latency 74.2 54% 74.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 33.5% Great: 61%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 - $89

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	866x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	645x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	438x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	186x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	160x
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	119x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	85x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	83x
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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Total price: $358

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $177	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16