Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 29% Raft	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 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 below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 24.9%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	29.6% is a below average 3D score (GTX 1070 = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (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	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 8 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

16 months ago, 12 months ago, 4 months ago, 4 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	2.3 GB free of 4 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20141202
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 09 '17 at 13:27
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	TWN-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
AMD Athlon II X2 250 (2013 D.Ri) 5,918 User benchmarks, average bench 25% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	24.9% Poor	SC Int 73.2 SC Float 44.5 SC Mixed 54.8 46% 57.5 Pts	QC Int 141 QC Float 86 QC Mixed 95.5 24% 108 Pts	MC Int 145 MC Float 86.1 MC Mixed 108 17% 113 Pts
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 24.9% Great: 29%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 33,855 User benchmarks, average bench 36% PowerColor(148C 2336) 2GB CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 16.12.1 Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	29.6% Poor	Lighting 95.3 Reflection 75.9 Parallax 107 31% 92.8 fps	MRender 52.2 Gravity 76.4 Splatting 77.1 29% 68.6 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 29.6% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$44 63,415 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 930GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 73 66 24528100 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 580 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 23356 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 453 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 362 (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 71 65 488112157 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 580 (C2) HDA temperature 29 13 55834574877 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 4 3 24528100 (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 -79078937853769 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10740102 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13787998	93.9% Outstanding	Read 151 Write 176 Mixed 110 108% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.31 106% 1 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$25 110,074 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 86GB free Firmware: KC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 2696 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1347 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 53828813 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1965 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1347 (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 62 52 639172646 (C2) HDA temperature 38 48 51539607590 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 37 2696 (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 -72709501352028 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3097282511 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3909453476	42% Average	Read 74.5 Write 72 Mixed 22.7 41% 56.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 0.79 4K Mixed 0.41 81% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 42% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1x4GB 41,019 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 1 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	24.4% Poor	MC Read 9 MC Write 6.7 MC Mixed 7.4 22% 7.7 GB/s	SC Read 7.5 SC Write 6.4 SC Mixed 6.6 20% 6.83 GB/s	Latency 78.4 51% 78.4 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 24.4% Great: 39%

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Gaming 24%

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Desktop 41%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 - $53

CPU
FX-6300AMD $78Bench 48%, 83,748 samples	2,731x
FX-8350AMD $109Bench 56%, 106,563 samples	1,617x
FX-8320AMD $106Bench 51%, 44,916 samples	807x

GPU
GTX 750 TiNvidia $110Bench 23%, 84,712 samples	705x
Radeon 3000 GraphicsATIBench 1%, 6,684 samples	632x
GTX 960Nvidia $200Bench 40%, 133,666 samples	568x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $65Bench 46%, 114,830 samples	388x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $80Bench 94%, 270,334 samples	325x
SSD Plus 120GBSanDisk $59Bench 57%, 33,065 samples	141x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 116,827 samples	3,303x
2x8GBUnknownBench 51%, 35,851 samples	1,410x
1x8GBUnknownBench 31%, 31,072 samples	1,307x

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Value: 55% - Above average

Total price: $306

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $80
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $170	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $290	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
Intel Core i7-7700K $290	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $190	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $931	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $204	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12