Asus M5A99X EVO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 35% Jet ski	Desktop 61% Destroyer	Workstation 25% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 58.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	63.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A99X EVO (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110516
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 02 '17 at 20:12
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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 X4 965-$144 43,442 User benchmarks, average bench 53% AM3r2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	58.3% Above average	Memory 83.3 1-Core 49.6 2-Core 99.3 50% 77.4 Pts	4-Core 195 8-Core 199 26% 197 Pts	64-Core 198 12% 198 Pts
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 61%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3716) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.6% Good	Lighting 80.2 Reflection 75.2 Parallax 76.6 65% 77.3 fps	MRender 71.7 Gravity 74.2 Splatting 74.1 60% 73.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 170 8341 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2942 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6813 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2857 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 970 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 183 183 52526 (C2) HDA temperature 118 100 34 (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	85.8% Excellent	Read 157 Write 143 Mixed 140 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.27 101% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 87%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 145636536 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 174 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 964805 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 302 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 70 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 58 588447774 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 624 (C2) HDA temperature 30 42 81604378654 (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 99746320482610 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1311293064 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23278803238	89% Excellent	Read 131 Write 178 Mixed 122 107% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 5.27 4K Mixed 0.79 218% 2.28 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16GB 70,565 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	25.9% Poor	MC Read 9.7 MC Write 7.1 MC Mixed 7.9 24% 8.23 GB/s	SC Read 7.1 SC Write 6 SC Mixed 7.7 20% 6.93 GB/s	Latency 74.7 54% 74.7 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 25.9% Great: 54%

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO - $300

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	74x
FX-8150AMD $770Bench 59%, 22,181 samples	50x
FX-8120AMDBench 56%, 25,690 samples	35x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	14x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	14x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	12x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	10x
MX500 500GBCrucial $54Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	7x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	161x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	66x
32GBUnknownBench 53%, 5,781 samples	35x

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Value: 80% - Very good

Total price: $517

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16