Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 72.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	112% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	62.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 21 '17 at 18:32
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.1% Very good	Memory 93.5 1-Core 71.8 2-Core 144 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 276 8-Core 394 42% 335 Pts	64-Core 447 28% 447 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6593) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	112% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 174 Parallax 171 115% 162 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 171 Splatting 126 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 330 Series 240GB 1,960 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -34230888443666 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2249 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1392 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 391055 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 391055 (F2) Unknown 100 100 542134 (F9) Unknown 100 100 14131	62.8% Good	Read 473 Write 221 Mixed 263 70% 319 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 57.7 4K Mixed 13.5 80% 30.7 MB/s	DQ Read 192 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 63.4 73% 128 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 91%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 225GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 589 (03) Spinup time 181 175 3950 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3443 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 11929 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2313 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 99 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3343 (C2) HDA temperature 113 106 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 10 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 10 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 6	57.7% Above average	Read 109 Write 92.2 Mixed 98 75% 99.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.42 112% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 76%
Lexar JumpDrive S23 USB 3.0 16GB-$8 500 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 6GB free, PID a833 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	27.1% Poor	Read 105 Write 26.2 Mixed 45.2 61% 58.8 MB/s	4K Read 8.05 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 1.09 114% 3.51 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 27.1% Great: 27%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 43,127 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.8% Above average	MC Read 22.9 MC Write 15.3 MC Mixed 18.2 54% 18.8 GB/s	SC Read 12 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 14.3 33% 11.6 GB/s	Latency 60.9 66% 60.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 63%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 23%

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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	864x
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	644x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	436x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	186x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	159x
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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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