Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-HD2

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 52% Yacht	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 52.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	5.47% 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	36.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB 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.

Very high background CPU (61%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-HD2 (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 6 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140528
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 18 '17 at 22:42
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	SRB-User
Background CPU	61%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon X4 840 Quad Core 4,588 User benchmarks, average bench 45% P0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	52.5% Above average	Memory 71.2 1-Core 65.9 2-Core 123 53% 86.6 Pts	4-Core 197 8-Core 201 26% 199 Pts	64-Core 200 12% 200 Pts
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52.5% Great: 53%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6570 19,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 2501) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.2201.0 Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	5.47% Terrible	Lighting 7.17 Reflection 7.12 Parallax 5.81 6% 6.7 fps	MRender 6.19 Gravity 5.2 Splatting 6 5% 5.8 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.47% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SP580 120GB 3,644 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 90GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0.0.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 4 100 526 (0C) Power cycle count 1 100 229 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 11 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 1 4 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2078 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 51 100 231930658868 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 0 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 1 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1074381237 (F2) Unknown 100 100 989214237	36.4% Below average	Read 328 Write 42.3 Mixed 58.7 30% 143 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 32.5 4K Mixed 7.42 59% 20.3 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 51.6 DQ Mixed 8.62 28% 62 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 36.4% Great: 70%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$90 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 181GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 137 4108 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 71 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 172 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 44 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 71 (C2) HDA temperature 102 93 41 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	53.3% Above average	Read 91.9 Write 93.7 Mixed 84.9 68% 90.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.41 101% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 58%
JetFlash Transcend 16GB 14,782 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 3GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	7.39% Terrible	Read 24.4 Write 13.4 Mixed 12.8 19% 16.9 MB/s	4K Read 3.82 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.02 15% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 7.39% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Transcend JM1333KLN-2G PSD34G16002 6GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 1333, 1600 MHz 2048, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	36.5% Below average	MC Read 16.6 MC Write 8.3 MC Mixed 14.1 37% 13 GB/s	SC Read 7.7 SC Write 7.7 SC Mixed 11 25% 8.8 GB/s	Latency 98.7 40% 98.7 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 48%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-HD2

CPU
A8-7650K APU (2014 D.Ka)AMDBench 44%, 15,487 samples	30x
A8-7600 APU (2014 D.Ka)AMDBench 42%, 31,243 samples	27x
Athlon II X4 860KAMD $51Bench 45%, 29,887 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	28x
Radeon R7 GraphicsAMDBench 5%, 22,117 samples	22x
Radeon R7 GraphicsAMDBench 6%, 25,284 samples	12x

SSD
BX500 240GBCrucial $29Bench 56%, 142,801 samples	9x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	6x
Ultra II 480GBSanDisk $39Bench 86%, 62,883 samples	5x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	10x
TEAMGROUP-UD3 1x8GBUnknownBench 25%, 800 samples	8x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	7x

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Total price: $88

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