Asus S500CA

Performance Results


Gaming 3% Tree trunk	Desktop 33% Sail boat	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 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 relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 35%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	1.19% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

CPU throttled at 47% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Run History

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

System	Asus S500CA (all builds)
Motherboard	ASUSTeK S500CA
Memory	4.5 GB free of 6 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20121225
Uptime	23.8 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '17 at 08:14
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	IND-User
Background CPU	1%
CPU Throttled	47%

PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3317U-$225 26,848 User benchmarks, average bench 47% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 1.7 GHz, turbo 0.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	35% Below average	Memory 60.9 1-Core 21.8 2-Core 40.9 30% 41.2 Pts	4-Core 55.6 8-Core 55 7% 55.3 Pts	64-Core 56.2 4% 56.2 Pts
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 35% Great: 57%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz) 409,110 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 10FD) 2GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.10.3308 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	1.19% Terrible	Lighting 1.3 Reflection 1.73 Parallax 0.91 1% 1.31 fps	MRender 1.86 Gravity 0.73 Splatting 2.48 1% 1.69 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 1.19% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk U100 24GB 1,395 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 16GB free Firmware: 10.56.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 874 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2330 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 483 (AE) Unknown 100 100 55 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1610 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2186 (F1) Unknown 100 100 21029673713 (F2) Unknown 100 100 16521410669	29.8% Poor	Read 343 Write 87.7 Mixed 139 41% 190 MB/s	4K Read 12.4 4K Write 11.5 4K Mixed 6.2 33% 10 MB/s	DQ Read 36.8 DQ Write 11 DQ Mixed 6.99 10% 18.3 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 29.8% Great: 34%
Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 500GB 64,410 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 389GB free (System drive) Firmware: GG2OA6C0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 60129542145 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 15702 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 7625 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2328 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 149673 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 206159020065 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 7 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	46.5% Average	Read 78.2 Write 83.9 Mixed 69.1 58% 77.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.19 65% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 8JTF5126 4HZ1G6D 1 Samsung M471B5773DH0-CK0 6GB 67 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 2048 MB Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	25.1% Poor	MC Read 8.3 MC Write 8.7 MC Mixed 9.9 26% 8.97 GB/s	SC Read 5.7 SC Write 4.6 SC Mixed 5.5 15% 5.27 GB/s	Latency 125 32% 125 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 25.1% Great: 53%

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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 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 42%

Speed boat

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

System: Asus S500CA

CPU
Core i3-3217UIntelBench 43%, 28,188 samples	34x
Core i5-3317UIntel $225Bench 47%, 26,848 samples	30x
Core i7-3537UIntelBench 52%, 17,065 samples	12x

GPU
HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 409,110 samples	92x
HD Graphics (G3 Pentium/Celeron 1.0/1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 28,701 samples	11x
HD 3000 (Mobile V1 1.1/1.2 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 209,058 samples	8x

SSD
U100 24GBSandiskBench 31%, 1,395 samples	6x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	4x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	3x

RAM
8JTF5126 4HZ1G6D 1 1x4GBMicronBench 28%, 804 samples	24x
1x4GBElpidaBench 28%, 3,874 samples	8x
8JTF5126 4HZ1G6D 1 Samsung M471B5773DH0-CK0 6GBMicronBench 42%, 67 samples	7x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16