Asus M5A97 LE R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 60% Gunboat	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 61.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	7.16% 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	66.4% 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.

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

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	4.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150324
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '17 at 05:34
Run Duration	381 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$90 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	61.1% Good	Memory 83.5 1-Core 69.8 2-Core 129 58% 94.1 Pts	4-Core 214 8-Core 284 32% 250 Pts	64-Core 286 18% 286 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6670 32,193 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Sapphire(174B E195) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	7.16% Terrible	Lighting 9.13 Reflection 8.96 Parallax 7.22 7% 8.44 fps	MRender 8.52 Gravity 6.53 Splatting 8.87 7% 7.98 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 7.16% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9827 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2215 (B1) Unknown 88 88 144 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 55 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 93 93 6576 (EB) Unknown 99 99 65 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28060701615	66.4% Good	Read 466 Write 281 Mixed 304 77% 350 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 48.7 4K Mixed 15.7 99% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 34 DQ Write 48.8 DQ Mixed 14.4 18% 32.4 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 108%
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 37GB free Firmware: SBFM71.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1760 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 337 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 77 77 88 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65542 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 203	52.1% Above average	Read 297 Write 332 Mixed 404 77% 344 MB/s	4K Read 25 4K Write 48.1 4K Mixed 1.96 66% 25 MB/s	DQ Read 26.4 DQ Write 70.9 DQ Mixed 6.87 17% 34.7 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 83%
WD WD5000AVDS-63U7B1 500GB 24,608 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 309GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 188 184 3591 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2600 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10757 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2520 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 102 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2497 (C2) HDA temperature 114 103 29 (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 100 253 0	52% Above average	Read 95.9 Write 85.4 Mixed 80.9 66% 87.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.23 56% 0.49 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 52%
WD WD3200KS-00PFB0 320GB 3,103 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 288GB free Firmware: 21.00M21 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 184 5691 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4083 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 23700 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3994 (C2) HDA temperature 117 1 33 (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	25.8% Poor	Read 43.9 Write 45.2 Mixed 44 34% 44.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.45 120% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 25.8% Great: 36%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 189GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 169 2241 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 978 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5386 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 976 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 946 (C2) HDA temperature 115 102 28 (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	78.5% Very good	Read 142 Write 132 Mixed 134 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.21 91% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 109%
USB DISK 2.0 4GB 1,030 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 0GB free, PID 3600 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	5.74% Terrible	Read 19.2 Write 6.48 Mixed 8.38 12% 11.3 MB/s	4K Read 5.99 4K Write 0.04 4K Mixed 0.04 25% 2.03 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.74% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata DDR3 1600G Corsair VS2GB1333D3 DDR3 1600G 8GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	43% Average	MC Read 16.7 MC Write 13.6 MC Mixed 15.1 43% 15.1 GB/s	SC Read 9.8 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 12.4 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 74.3 54% 74.3 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 43%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 - $200

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	428x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	389x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	203x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	108x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	67x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	66x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	51x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	36x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	46x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	32x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	26x

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Total price: $377

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16