Asus M4A78-EM

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 47% Yacht	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 51.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	4.66% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	37.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus M4A78-EM (all builds)
Memory	6.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20101215
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '17 at 14:46
Run Duration	231 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom 9850 2,080 User benchmarks, average bench 46% AM2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	51.7% Above average	Memory 78.1 1-Core 36.4 2-Core 70.8 42% 61.8 Pts	4-Core 150 8-Core 148 20% 149 Pts	64-Core 148 9% 148 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 53%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon HD 4670 21,442 User benchmarks, average bench 4% XFX(1682 2932) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.1100 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	4.66% Terrible	Lighting 5.63 Reflection 8.35 Parallax 3.72 5% 5.9 fps	MRender 5.67 Gravity 3.93 Splatting 7.39 5% 5.66 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.66% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10654043 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 59880434045412 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1098 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 433 (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 37 38657130527 (C2) HDA temperature 31 37 38657130527 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10654043 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10654043 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10654043 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 64424509441 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14953 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6214 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6214 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9020 (F4) Unknown 99 99 4194360	37.4% Below average	Read 258 Write 119 Mixed 106 35% 161 MB/s	4K Read 9.39 4K Write 42.5 4K Mixed 9.33 49% 20.4 MB/s	DQ Read 117 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 56.8 61% 100 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 37.4% Great: 85%
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 298GB free Firmware: 1AC01118 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 99 9 361 (03) Spinup time 92 92 3350 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 1823 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 9908 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 10555 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1778 (0D) Soft read error rate 99 9 361 (B7) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 2893 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 54 404095000 (C2) HDA temperature 75 52 420872217 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 614041 (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 100 100 147 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	61.6% Good	Read 107 Write 108 Mixed 68.6 70% 94.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 0.22 4K Mixed 0.55 96% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 62%
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 298GB free Firmware: 1AC01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 92 92 3460 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2492 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 9849 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 10016 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2299 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 56 387252247 (C2) HDA temperature 76 54 404029464 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 289092 (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 2477 (C8) Write error rate 99 99 75 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	55.7% Above average	Read 98.7 Write 95.1 Mixed 56.5 62% 83.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.42 117% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 62%
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 298GB free Firmware: 1AC01118 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 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 92 92 3380 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1471 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 6375 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1363 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 55 420937753 (C2) HDA temperature 74 52 437714970 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 103945 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 99 99 105 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	62.3% Good	Read 106 Write 111 Mixed 81.1 74% 99.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.42 118% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR2 Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	25.2% Poor	MC Read 10 MC Write 6.1 MC Mixed 9.1 24% 8.4 GB/s	SC Read 5.9 SC Write 5 SC Mixed 6.2 16% 5.7 GB/s	Latency 84.2 48% 84.2 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 25.2% Great: 45%

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Gaming 5%

Tree trunk

Desktop 49%

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Workstation 5%

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Motherboard: Asus M4A78-EM

CPU
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 51%, 41,403 samples	3x
Phenom II X4 960TAMD $469Bench 54%, 4,461 samples	2x
Phenom II X4 945AMDBench 51%, 12,746 samples	1x

GPU
GeForce GT 710NvidiaBench 3%, 187,161 samples	3x
Radeon HD 3200ATIBench 1%, 5,730 samples	2x
GTX 460Nvidia $203Bench 12%, 31,648 samples	1x

SSD
850 Evo 120GBSamsung $80Bench 96%, 69,224 samples	1x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	1x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	1x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	6x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	4x
3x2GBUnknownBench 30%, 45,030 samples	2x

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Value: 41% - Average

Total price: $163

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	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