Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 65.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	26.2% 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	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	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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 26 '17 at 22:56
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	65.4% Good	Memory 90.5 1-Core 67.1 2-Core 130 60% 95.9 Pts	4-Core 224 8-Core 300 33% 262 Pts	64-Core 301 19% 301 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 950-$100 111,509 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Asus(1043 8553) 2GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (70^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	26.2% Poor	Lighting 32.5 Reflection 31.6 Parallax 29 26% 31 fps	MRender 35.2 Gravity 29.4 Splatting 30.2 26% 31.6 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 26.2% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier SP550 240GB-$74 29,295 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 118GB free Firmware: O080 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st 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 100 100 882 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 419 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 178 (A3) Unknown 100 100 21 (A4) Unknown 100 100 120696 (A5) Unknown 100 100 109 (A6) Unknown 100 100 8 (A7) Unknown 100 100 61 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 94 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 119 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 90 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 44 (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 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 450688 (F2) Unknown 100 100 499735 (F5) Unknown 100 100 482784	74.8% Very good	Read 428 Write 245 Mixed 251 68% 308 MB/s	4K Read 36.5 4K Write 42.5 4K Mixed 27.9 114% 35.6 MB/s	DQ Read 253 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 51 74% 141 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 92%
Toshiba MK7559GSM 750GB 188 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 423GB free Firmware: GL00 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 3132 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 5263 (05) Reallocated sector count 80 80 3320 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 13422 (0A) Spinup retry count 205 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1315 (B7) Unknown 100 100 168 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 83 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 46 571998236 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 20377 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2949165 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 90056 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 182 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	21.4% Poor	Read 35.4 Write 39.1 Mixed 43.2 30% 39.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.17 49% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.4% Great: 42%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 404GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 63 86705281 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2334 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 106267815 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9746 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 383 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 5 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 50 622526494 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2640 (C2) HDA temperature 30 15 64424509470 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 86705281 (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 93346819215737 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17666703065 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19550176660	78.5% Very good	Read 141 Write 132 Mixed 130 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.3 82% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT351U6BFR8C-H9 Adata Micron 16JTF51264AZ-1G6M1 Adata 16GB 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51.5% Above average	MC Read 22.6 MC Write 14.1 MC Mixed 19.1 53% 18.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 8.1 SC Mixed 13.2 31% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns

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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	865x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	645x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 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	118x

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 $273	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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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