Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 45% Speed boat	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 36% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 70.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	47.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). 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	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150212
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 27 '17 at 14:32
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing as expected (50^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 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.2% Very good	Memory 87.1 1-Core 72.7 2-Core 145 62% 102 Pts	4-Core 289 8-Core 437 45% 363 Pts	64-Core 437 27% 437 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Sapphire(174B E324) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.8% Good	Lighting 76.7 Reflection 63.7 Parallax 87.3 62% 75.9 fps	MRender 63.6 Gravity 62.4 Splatting 80.3 58% 68.8 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 7963274 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 -121461675125690 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1076 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 164 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 45 64427458591 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 64427458591 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7963274 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7963274 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7963274 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 94489280513 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9458 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5683 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5683 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4774 (F4) Unknown 98 98 4587590	47.9% Average	Read 225 Write 117 Mixed 163 37% 168 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 14.4 91% 34.5 MB/s	DQ Read 108 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 35.1 50% 90.5 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 75%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 77 (03) Spinup time 134 134 34387722665 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 133 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 660 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 121 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 133 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 133 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 176094969889 (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 200 200 1	62.7% Good	Read 114 Write 105 Mixed 165 98% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.2 92% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 588GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 63 85630164 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1146 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 58606001 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5185 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1030 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032836 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 71 58 487718941 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1160 (C2) HDA temperature 29 12 51539607581 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 4 1 85630164 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 112279035057166 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21457669218 (F2) Unknown 100 253 21846503442	78.1% Very good	Read 144 Write 129 Mixed 127 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.26 81% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 112%
General USB Flash Disk 16GB 7,914 User benchmarks, average bench 8% 15GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	25.6% Poor	Read 135 Write 13.8 Mixed 30.8 54% 59.8 MB/s	4K Read 5.8 4K Write 0.55 4K Mixed 1.01 75% 2.46 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 25.6% Great: 15%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 1,490 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.7% Average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 15.3 MC Mixed 17.2 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 13 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 70.4 57% 70.4 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 102%

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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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Typical M5A97 EVO R2.0 Builds (Compare 581 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 38%

Jet ski

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 $129Bench 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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16