Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 41% Speed boat	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (29th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 71 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 41.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	3.29% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	38.2% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (71%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	8.3 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161118
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 14 '17 at 01:10
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	71%

PC Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X4 960T-$469 4,461 User benchmarks, average bench 54% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	41.9% Average	Memory 72.9 1-Core 23.9 2-Core 54.1 36% 50.3 Pts	4-Core 65.3 8-Core 77.9 9% 71.6 Pts	64-Core 67.1 4% 67.1 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 720 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 4% EVGA(3842 2722) 1GB CLim: 797 MHz, MLim: 450 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	3.29% Terrible	Lighting 3.9 Reflection 3.38 Parallax 3.53 3% 3.61 fps	MRender 4.48 Gravity 3.27 Splatting 4.91 4% 4.22 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.29% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11691659 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 139818365359631 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1790 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 829 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 33 43 55837392929 (C2) HDA temperature 33 43 55837392929 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11691659 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11691659 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11691659 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 94 94 47244640257 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10016 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6584 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6584 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8615 (F4) Unknown 98 98 4980809	38.2% Below average	Read 193 Write 123 Mixed 159 35% 159 MB/s	4K Read 21.2 4K Write 40 4K Mixed 13.1 70% 24.8 MB/s	DQ Read 29.5 DQ Write 71.9 DQ Mixed 12 20% 37.8 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 668GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 135223504 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3569 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 109263220 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6783 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1979 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 10 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 53 589168675 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 502 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 41237 (C2) HDA temperature 35 47 55834574883 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -90735479090906 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27607151866 (F2) Unknown 100 253 54346486862	85% Excellent	Read 169 Write 128 Mixed 51.3 85% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.2 69% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 112%
Samsung HD502HI 500GB-$154 24,344 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 343GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 1 666 (03) Spinup time 93 93 3120 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 9957 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 31675 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 20 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 6853 (0D) Soft read error rate 99 1 550 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 210302 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 51 454492187 (C2) HDA temperature 71 48 488046621 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 314492 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 99 99 30 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	61.3% Good	Read 105 Write 109 Mixed 68.1 70% 93.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.26 84% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3x4GB 39,448 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	22.9% Poor	MC Read 10.1 MC Write 4.7 MC Mixed 8.3 22% 7.7 GB/s	SC Read 4.4 SC Write 3.8 SC Mixed 7.2 15% 5.13 GB/s	Latency 94.9 42% 94.9 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 22.9% Great: 57%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	434x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	294x
FX-8300AMD $168Bench 58%, 49,767 samples	176x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	177x
Radeon RX 560-BAMDBench 20%, 49,289 samples	86x
GTX 1050Nvidia $101Bench 26%, 269,381 samples	84x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	60x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	43x
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	29x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	326x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	183x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	174x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $177

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16