Asus M5A78L-M LX

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 53% Yacht	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 50.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	14.7% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M LX (all builds)
Memory	5.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20131105
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 29 '17 at 08:39
Run Duration	90 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon II X3 455-$90 3,733 User benchmarks, average bench 45% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 3 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	50.6% Above average	Memory 76.5 1-Core 49.2 2-Core 97.7 48% 74.5 Pts	4-Core 146 8-Core 146 20% 146 Pts	64-Core 147 9% 147 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 54%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% MSI(1462 2710) 1GB CLim: 1030 MHz, MLim: 1160 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 17.4.4 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	14.7% Very poor	Lighting 18.6 Reflection 17.2 Parallax 26.1 15% 20.6 fps	MRender 14.1 Gravity 16.7 Splatting 19.3 14% 16.7 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.7% Great: 14%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB-$95 20,246 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 48GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.AAA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 97 76251325 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10794 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 5 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 711320437 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 36808 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 8019 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 48 639238182 (C2) HDA temperature 38 52 51539607590 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 66 45 136620690 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	48.8% Average	Read 85.9 Write 84.4 Mixed 61 58% 77.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.36 81% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31.5% Below average	MC Read 13.9 MC Write 7.2 MC Mixed 11.5 31% 10.9 GB/s	SC Read 7.7 SC Write 6.7 SC Mixed 8.5 22% 7.63 GB/s	Latency 87.4 46% 87.4 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 31.5% Great: 65%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 5%

Tree trunk

Desktop 48%

Yacht

Workstation 5%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M LX - $200

CPU
FX-4100AMD $110Bench 51%, 32,471 samples	50x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	47x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	27x

GPU
Radeon 3000 GraphicsATIBench 1%, 21,841 samples	28x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	13x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	13x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	13x
Sata III 128GBIntensoBench 67%, 2,059 samples	7x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	6x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	149x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	39x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	26x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $338

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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