Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 43% Speed boat	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 51%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	0.46% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	1.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20141202
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 06 '16 at 13:12
Run Duration	360 Seconds
Run User	SVK-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (46^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-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	51% Above average	Memory 79.2 1-Core 47.2 2-Core 83 46% 69.8 Pts	4-Core 129 8-Core 168 19% 148 Pts	64-Core 203 13% 203 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon 3000 Graphics 21,841 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Asus(1043 8388) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.1100 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	0.46% Terrible	Lighting 0.47 Reflection 1.04 Parallax 0.25 0% 0.59 fps	MRender 0.76 Gravity 0.2 Splatting 1.13 1% 0.7 fps
Poor: 0% ↑ This bench: 0.46% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3067 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 893 (B1) Unknown 96 96 66 (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 62 52 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9482683727
Poor: 64% Great: 115%
Seagate ST1500DM003-9YN16G 1.5TB 5,186 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 486GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 69999704 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2622 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 56 55 25772473929 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4155 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1361 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 53 706019359 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 39 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13210 (C2) HDA temperature 31 47 60129542175 (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 -104681237903680 (F1) Unknown 100 253 40969647035228 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22406520342132	49.9% Average	Read 82.9 Write 91.3 Mixed 21.8 48% 65.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 0.81 4K Mixed 0.38 88% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 103%
Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 250GB 8,875 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 125GB free Firmware: PB2OC60F Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 217 217 64424509441 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 9136 (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 49 49 22459 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 5440 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 136205 (C2) HDA temperature 196 196 244813725724 (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 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	31.5% Below average	Read 55.5 Write 54.3 Mixed 11.2 29% 40.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.26 60% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 31.5% Great: 45%
Toshiba MK8037GSX 80GB-$110 741 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 71GB free Firmware: DL232C Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1146 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7271 (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 24 24 30502 (0A) Spinup retry count 245 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4896 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 36 571801631 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1037 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4194368 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 51 51 490524 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 274878431263 (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 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 30 (DE) Loaded hours 50 50 20057 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 318 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	24.1% Poor	Read 41.6 Write 42.1 Mixed 21.8 26% 35.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.25 63% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 24.1% Great: 24%
TOSHIBA TransMemory 32GB 7,326 User benchmarks, average bench 8% 3GB free, PID 6544, Toshiba TransMemory U202 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	6.5% Terrible	Read 18.1 Write 14.1 Mixed 11.7 18% 14.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.47 4K Write 0.15 4K Mixed 0.01 11% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.5% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	35.4% Below average	MC Read 16.1 MC Write 9 MC Mixed 14.2 37% 13.1 GB/s	SC Read 5.1 SC Write 3.9 SC Mixed 4.9 13% 4.63 GB/s	Latency 82 49% 82 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 35.4% Great: 65%

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Desktop 50%

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Workstation 5%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 - $53

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	506x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	324x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	185x

GPU
Radeon 3000 GraphicsATIBench 1%, 21,841 samples	139x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	127x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	90x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	56x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	48x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	354x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	345x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	309x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $128

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