Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 54% Yacht	Workstation 3% 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 a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 57.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	5.34% 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	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	10GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 10GB 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	8.1 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141202
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '17 at 18:41
Run Duration	94 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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 FX-6100-$68 44,863 User benchmarks, average bench 54% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	57.8% Above average	Memory 83.6 1-Core 65.4 2-Core 115 56% 88.1 Pts	4-Core 203 8-Core 110 23% 157 Pts	64-Core 240 15% 240 Pts
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6670 32,193 User benchmarks, average bench 6% XFX(1682 318C) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0 Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)	5.34% Terrible	Lighting 7.03 Reflection 7.23 Parallax 7.03 6% 7.1 fps	MRender 4.86 Gravity 6.37 Splatting 5.48 4% 5.57 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.34% Great: 7%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5TB-$130 20,479 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 801GB free (System drive) Firmware: HP16 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 7216 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1298 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 4648205593 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9426 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1297 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1894763796 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 8590066144 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 63 46 655884325 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 249 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1298 (C2) HDA temperature 37 54 64424509477 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 10 7216 (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 200 200 0	55.4% Above average	Read 102 Write 90.7 Mixed 26.6 53% 73.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.31 75% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 10GB 21,027 User benchmarks, average bench 31% null MHz 2048, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	38.7% Below average	MC Read 14.7 MC Write 12.4 MC Mixed 13.3 38% 13.5 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 7.5 SC Mixed 10.9 26% 8.97 GB/s	Latency 74.1 54% 74.1 ns
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 45%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 5%

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Desktop 50%

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Workstation 5%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 - $53

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	511x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	325x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	186x

GPU
Radeon 3000 GraphicsATIBench 1%, 21,841 samples	139x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	127x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	90x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	56x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	48x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	355x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	346x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	310x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $171

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16