Asus M4A78-AM

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 0% Tree trunk	Desktop 19% Surfboard	Workstation 0% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 42.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	0.54% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	2GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows however a minimum of 4GB is recommended for gaming or any other RAM intensive tasks such as photo/video editing. This system will also be a little more responsive with 4GB of RAM.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus M4A78-AM (all builds)
Memory	0.7 GB free of 2 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20090519
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '17 at 10:35
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	UKR-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing as expected (56^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 X2 240 5,506 User benchmarks, average bench 40% AM2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	42.5% Average	Memory 72.3 1-Core 37.7 2-Core 64.4 40% 58.1 Pts	4-Core 77.5 8-Core 75.8 10% 76.7 Pts	64-Core 60.1 4% 60.1 Pts
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 47%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon HD 3200 5,730 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Asus(1043 82F1) 256MB Driver: aticfx32.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	0.54% Terrible	Lighting 0.63 Reflection 1.35 Parallax 0.38 0% 0.78 fps	MRender 0.9 Gravity 0.13 Splatting 1.04 1% 0.69 fps
Poor: 0% ↑ This bench: 0.54% Great: 1%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate ST31000520AS 1TB-$250 11,608 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 548GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 123890349 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6771 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 509634295 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3375 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 349 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 62 538181664 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 38654705696 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 23 123890349 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -120190364785811 (F1) Unknown 100 253 504613129 (F2) Unknown 100 253 971710210	45.6% Average	Read 91.1 Write 67.9 Mixed 90.9 63% 83.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.21 65% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 45.6% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1x2GB 99,586 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 1 of 2 slots used 2GB DIMM DDR2 Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	15.4% Very poor	MC Read 4.5 MC Write 4.7 MC Mixed 4.4 13% 4.53 GB/s	SC Read 4.1 SC Write 4.1 SC Mixed 4.5 12% 4.23 GB/s	Latency 96.1 42% 96.1 ns
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 15.4% Great: 26%

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

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Typical M4A78-AM Builds (Compare 6 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 4%

Tree trunk

Desktop 48%

Yacht

Workstation 3%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus M4A78-AM

CPU
Athlon II X4 630AMDBench 45%, 7,197 samples	2x
Athlon II X2 250 (2013 D.Ri)AMDBench 40%, 19,471 samples	1x
Athlon II X4 640AMD $70Bench 45%, 18,839 samples	1x

GPU
Radeon HD 6770AMDBench 10%, 16,639 samples	2x
Radeon HD 3200ATIBench 1%, 5,730 samples	1x
Radeon HD 4670ATIBench 4%, 21,442 samples	1x

SSD
SSD 240GBGigabyte $30Bench 73%, 20,238 samples	1x
SH00R256GB 256GBBench 66%, 69 samples	1x
860 Pro 256GBSamsung $90Bench 109%, 12,565 samples	1x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	5x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	1x

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Value: 23% - Poor

Total price: $30

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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