Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 68.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	85% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	65.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	28.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150212
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 10 '18 at 00:44
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing as expected (56^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 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.8% Good	Memory 83.4 1-Core 75.7 2-Core 152 62% 104 Pts	4-Core 293 8-Core 467 47% 380 Pts	64-Core 467 29% 467 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% Nvidia(10DE 1132) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1590 MHz, MLim: 1845 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 124 Parallax 118 90% 117 fps	MRender 94.6 Gravity 101 Splatting 86.5 76% 94 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 211GB free Firmware: M0CR040 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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 42 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 14 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 68 137439870999 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 168830430 (F7) Unknown 100 100 5300069 (F8) Unknown 100 100 400257 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1254 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	64.5% Good	Read 447 Write 317 Mixed 323 80% 362 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 43.5 4K Mixed 14.9 75% 26.6 MB/s	DQ Read 140 DQ Write 93.8 DQ Mixed 30.9 46% 88.1 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 95%
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 127GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^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 100 100 919 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 218 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 32 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 66 146029674523 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 8810400558 (F7) Unknown 100 100 275730939 (F8) Unknown 100 100 66780588 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1264 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	65.3% Good	Read 426 Write 317 Mixed 321 79% 355 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 41.1 4K Mixed 17.8 79% 27.2 MB/s	DQ Read 136 DQ Write 95.8 DQ Mixed 24.9 43% 85.6 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 95%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 672GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 171 2116 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 773 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1488 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 313 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2472 (C2) HDA temperature 120 106 23 (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	108% Outstanding	Read 207 Write 171 Mixed 164 136% 180 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.33 119% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C9 4x8GB 350 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	43.3% Average	MC Read 16.1 MC Write 15.2 MC Mixed 14.6 44% 15.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.4 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 11.6 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 74.5 54% 74.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 43.3% Great: 90%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 - $166

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	227x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	102x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	41x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	30x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	27x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	29x
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	21x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	22x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	12x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	12x

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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 $179	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