Asus M3A78-EM

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 24% Surfboard	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 17.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is terrible.
Graphics	13% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (66%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus M3A78-EM (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20101008
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 24 '17 at 09:58
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	66%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X3 715 8 User benchmarks, average bench 44% AM2, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 3 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	17.4% Very poor	Memory 30.2 1-Core 11.6 2-Core 23.2 15% 21.7 Pts	4-Core 27.5 8-Core 29.4 4% 28.5 Pts	64-Core 29.3 2% 29.3 Pts
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 17.4% Great: 51%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 460-$203 31,648 User benchmarks, average bench 12% MSI(1462 2321) 768MB CLim: 725 MHz, MLim: 900 MHz, Ram: 768MB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	13% Very poor	Lighting 15.4 Reflection 17.6 Parallax 13.6 12% 15.5 fps	MRender 20.5 Gravity 15.7 Splatting 15.5 14% 17.2 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$80 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 82GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 9 (03) Spinup time 137 136 4125 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2369 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4267 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2364 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 159 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2369 (C2) HDA temperature 109 84 34 (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 4 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	48.6% Average	Read 78.2 Write 91.1 Mixed 30.1 49% 66.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.3 81% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 48.6% Great: 58%
Seagate ST380815AS 80GB-$35 16,844 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 36GB free Firmware: 3.AAD Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 89 27095947 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2483 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 193494810 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4297 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2434 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 47 623181861 (C2) HDA temperature 37 53 38654705701 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 81 71 73230519 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	34.9% Below average	Read 60.4 Write 61.1 Mixed 21.2 35% 47.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.37 82% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 42%
Samsung HD160JJ 160GB-$85 5,008 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 28GB free Firmware: ZM100-33 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6080 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6084 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 6 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5426 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 2 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3365 (BE) vendor-specific 133 58 35 (C2) HDA temperature 133 58 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 21091 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 6 (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 100 100 8	28.9% Poor	Read 49.9 Write 50.5 Mixed 46.7 37% 49 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.28 72% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 28.9% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR2 Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	11.1% Very poor	MC Read 4.4 MC Write 2.8 MC Mixed 3.7 10% 3.63 GB/s	SC Read 3.3 SC Write 3.2 SC Mixed 4.4 10% 3.63 GB/s	Latency 254 16% 254 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 11.1% Great: 45%

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Gaming 4%

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Desktop 48%

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Workstation 4%

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Motherboard: Asus M3A78-EM - $18

CPU
Phenom II X4 965AMD $144Bench 53%, 43,442 samples	5x
Phenom II X2 550AMDBench 46%, 3,836 samples	4x
Phenom II X4 940AMDBench 49%, 3,675 samples	4x

GPU
Radeon HD 3200ATIBench 1%, 5,730 samples	9x
GeForce 210NvidiaBench 1%, 98,254 samples	3x
HD 4870ATIBench 9%, 22,563 samples	3x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	5x
Premier SP550 240GBAdata $74Bench 79%, 29,295 samples	2x
128GB 128GBSSDBench 65%, 7,332 samples	2x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	29x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	5x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	5x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $200

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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