Asus M5A97 EVO

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 36% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	54% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	69.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 EVO (all builds)
Memory	3.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121016
Uptime	5.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 14 '17 at 22:45
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	Memory 92 1-Core 81.4 2-Core 164 68% 112 Pts	4-Core 306 8-Core 498 49% 402 Pts	64-Core 500 31% 500 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 3975) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	54% Above average	Lighting 68.4 Reflection 68.6 Parallax 62 56% 66.3 fps	MRender 69.5 Gravity 63.8 Splatting 55 50% 62.8 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC240G1CS2754D117-488 240GB 1,955 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS211101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th 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 15890 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 986 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 402 (B1) Unknown 0 0 305 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 38 100 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 240 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 101 (E7) Temperature 96 100 38 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10 (EA) Unknown 0 0 194 (F1) Unknown 0 0 38746 (F2) Unknown 0 0 48020	69.9% Good	Read 504 Write 289 Mixed 361 85% 384 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 58.9 4K Mixed 20.9 93% 34.3 MB/s	DQ Read 28.9 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 43.1 48% 76.9 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 97%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 284GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1136 (03) Spinup time 173 171 4350 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3292 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 34933 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2323 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1636 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1655 (C2) HDA temperature 112 89 35 (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 1	60.8% Good	Read 114 Write 97.8 Mixed 108 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.44 113% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 76%
Seagate ST3320820AS 320GB-$55 14,577 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 157GB free Firmware: 3.AHG Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 17238 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 627131903 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 51904 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 9192 (BB) vendor-specific 80 80 20 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 44 86488449059 (C2) HDA temperature 35 56 64424509475 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 76 52 108399241 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	37.7% Below average	Read 64.5 Write 66.7 Mixed 61.7 48% 64.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.31 73% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GB 82,857 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	50.9% Above average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 17 MC Mixed 17.4 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 9.4 SC Mixed 13.6 33% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 51%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 EVO - $69

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	15x
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 51%, 41,403 samples	10x
FX-8120AMDBench 56%, 25,690 samples	10x

GPU
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	5x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	5x
HD 6870AMDBench 15%, 25,443 samples	4x

SSD
SSD Plus 120GBSanDisk $42Bench 58%, 87,912 samples	4x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	4x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	3x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	37x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	18x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	8x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $360

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 $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) $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