Asus M5A78L

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 53% Yacht	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 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 45.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	38.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 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)
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (69%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L (all builds)
Memory	5.1 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110922
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 04 '17 at 02:34
Run Duration	261 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	69%

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PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6100-$68 44,863 User benchmarks, average bench 54% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	45.8% Average	Memory 58.9 1-Core 45.7 2-Core 90.3 40% 65 Pts	4-Core 179 8-Core 249 27% 214 Pts	64-Core 263 16% 263 Pts
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Sapphire(174B E347) CLim: 1342 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.5.1 Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	38.7% Below average	Lighting 42.6 Reflection 62 Parallax 73.6 35% 59.4 fps	MRender 63.3 Gravity 58 Splatting 51.7 47% 57.7 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 133GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q 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 3417 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 447 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9407815279
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 57GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 43574304 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -111488761067349 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 302 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 39 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 43 64427327519 (C2) HDA temperature 31 43 64427327519 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 43574304 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 43574304 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 43574304 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98784247808 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2038 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1953 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1953 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2734 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1245188	35.4% Below average	Read 249 Write 187 Mixed 200 47% 212 MB/s	4K Read 15.9 4K Write 10.6 4K Mixed 9.6 42% 12 MB/s	DQ Read 33.1 DQ Write 31.9 DQ Mixed 15.8 16% 26.9 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 35.4% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4464 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5771 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 4473494782 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 21927 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1487 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 83 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 49 655687718 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 223 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5997 (C2) HDA temperature 38 51 47244640294 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 18 9 4464 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 523986025595 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3581050929 (F2) Unknown 100 253 887164247	47.2% Average	Read 90.5 Write 72.4 Mixed 63.2 56% 75.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 6.24 4K Mixed 0.53 187% 2.35 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 75%
Samsung HD161HJ 160GB-$40 22,667 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 147GB free Firmware: JF100-14 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 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 79 4288 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10682 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 36001 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3642 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 115439 (B8) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 62 62 1179687 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 136 100 772079650 (C2) HDA temperature 133 97 788856867 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 115439 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	41.5% Average	Read 70.9 Write 73.7 Mixed 71.1 54% 71.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.4 95% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 42%
Kindle Internal Storage 3GB 698 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 3GB free, PID 0004 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Read 14.5 Write 14.1 Mixed 13 18% 13.8 MB/s	4K Read 197 2,194% 197 MB/s
Poor: 4% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 12GB 85,415 User benchmarks, average bench 35% null MHz 4096, 4096, 2048, 2048 MB Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	31.2% Below average	MC Read 12.1 MC Write 9.8 MC Mixed 13.1 33% 11.7 GB/s	SC Read 4.7 SC Write 4.1 SC Mixed 7.6 16% 5.47 GB/s	Latency 131 30% 131 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 31.2% Great: 50%

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Gaming 19%

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Desktop 61%

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Workstation 14%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L

CPU
Phenom II X4 965AMD $144Bench 53%, 43,442 samples	7x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	6x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	4x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	3x
Radeon HD 6770AMDBench 10%, 16,639 samples	2x
GTX 550-TiNvidia $250Bench 9%, 54,392 samples	2x

SSD
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	2x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	2x
SL300 120GBColorfulBench 61%, 1,356 samples	2x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	12x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	4x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	4x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $292

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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