Asus H97M-E

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 59% Gunboat	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (35th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 65 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 67%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	5.49% 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	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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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 8 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 H97M-E (all builds)
Memory	8.6 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151110
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '17 at 04:43
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	67% Good	Memory 64.8 1-Core 108 2-Core 211 70% 128 Pts	4-Core 372 8-Core 565 58% 468 Pts	64-Core 572 35% 572 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6570 19,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 2206) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	5.49% Terrible	Lighting 7.3 Reflection 6.85 Parallax 5.75 6% 6.63 fps	MRender 6.38 Gravity 5.17 Splatting 5.39 5% 5.65 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.49% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 149GB free (System drive) Firmware: KC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 40 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6805 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 147333709 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5545 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1720 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 54 639434790 (C2) HDA temperature 38 46 98784247846 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 55 36 40 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 95404108551589 (F1) Unknown 100 253 116181855 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3471881823	43% Average	Read 78.8 Write 71 Mixed 86.2 60% 78.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.53 87% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 88%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2013) 72,354 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 112GB free Firmware: 02.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 153 147 1325 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17109 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 2946 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3294 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 252 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 182 182 54886 (C2) HDA temperature 110 94 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 97 97 2793	42.2% Average	Read 69.9 Write 77.1 Mixed 60.1 52% 69 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.21 67% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 42.2% Great: 63%
HGST Travelstar 5K1000 2.5" 500GB 33 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 38GB free Firmware: JA6O Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 159 159 81604378625 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1521 (05) Reallocated sector count 55 55 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 1345 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1133 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 466 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 14686 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 210454773792 (C4) Reallocation count 46 46 1423 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	27.3% Poor	Read 62.6 Write 32.6 Mixed 46.3 36% 47.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 0.56 4K Mixed 0.17 43% 0.35 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 27.3% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5173QH0-CK0 M378B5173QH0-CK0 1337 FLFF65F-D8KM9 12GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 800, 800, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	25% Poor	MC Read 8.2 MC Write 8.6 MC Mixed 8.1 24% 8.3 GB/s	SC Read 6.8 SC Write 8.2 SC Mixed 8 22% 7.67 GB/s	Latency 114 35% 114 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 25% Great: 40%

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Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 65%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus H97M-E - $99

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	583x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	388x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	305x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	199x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	192x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	159x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	69x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	68x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	64x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	107x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	63x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 27,462 samples	43x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $277

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 $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	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