Asus M4A78-EM

Performance Results


Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 51% Yacht	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 55.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	6.42% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	24.9% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus M4A78-EM (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20101215
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 09 '16 at 00:57
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 2.75 GHz, turbo 2.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	55.2% Above average	Memory 82.6 1-Core 40.8 2-Core 82.1 46% 68.5 Pts	4-Core 163 8-Core 166 22% 165 Pts	64-Core 164 10% 164 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 53%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5670 18,196 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Sapphire(174B E151) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	6.42% Terrible	Lighting 7.77 Reflection 8.88 Parallax 6.12 6% 7.59 fps	MRender 8.48 Gravity 5.2 Splatting 9.87 7% 7.85 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.42% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 60GB free (System drive) Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 107 100 107 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 181 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 21 (A9) Unknown 100 100 16 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 73 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 100 184683593758 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1547 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1217 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1069	24.9% Poor	Read 204 Write 83.9 Mixed 122 30% 137 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 3.72 4K Mixed 3.49 42% 10.2 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 24.9% Great: 78%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 393GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 270 (03) Spinup time 158 154 5091 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 754 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13744 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3193 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 318 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3193 (C2) HDA temperature 124 100 23 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 15 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	50% Above average	Read 96.5 Write 77.4 Mixed 90.7 67% 88.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.39 114% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 69%
Seagate ST3400820AS 400GB 872 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 348GB free Firmware: 3.CHL 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 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1687 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 89 60 915594274 (09) Power-on hours count 33 33 58705 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 909 (B8) Unknown 100 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 54 421068825 (C2) HDA temperature 25 46 64424509465 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 70 57 200761366 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	42.7% Average	Read 72.7 Write 75.8 Mixed 73.2 56% 73.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.29 86% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 42.7% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR2 Performing below potential (32^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	27.4% Poor	MC Read 10 MC Write 7.3 MC Mixed 9.6 26% 8.97 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 6.1 SC Mixed 7.5 19% 6.73 GB/s	Latency 75.8 53% 75.8 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 27.4% Great: 65%

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Typical M4A78-EM Builds (Compare 13 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 5%

Tree trunk

Desktop 49%

Yacht

Workstation 5%

Tree trunk

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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $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