Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

Performance Results


Gaming 45% Yacht	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	62.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	32.6% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	8.3 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20161118
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 22 '17 at 19:58
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.4% Good	Memory 89.8 1-Core 70.5 2-Core 146 62% 102 Pts	4-Core 266 8-Core 436 43% 351 Pts	64-Core 439 27% 439 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85B6) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62.3% Good	Lighting 79.2 Reflection 78.8 Parallax 75.9 64% 78 fps	MRender 70.3 Gravity 69.3 Splatting 71.9 58% 70.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS900 120GB-$25 42,924 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS900211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 472 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 54 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 71 71 112 (AD) Unknown 100 100 524301 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 561	32.6% Below average	Read 200 Write 115 Mixed 182 37% 166 MB/s	4K Read 18.1 4K Write 42.9 4K Mixed 5.47 57% 22.1 MB/s	DQ Read 22.3 DQ Write 46.1 DQ Mixed 6.65 13% 25 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 32.6% Great: 87%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 181 5933 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 217 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1306 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 118 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 73 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 22938 (C2) HDA temperature 118 113 32 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	74.9% Very good	Read 126 Write 135 Mixed 126 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.25 101% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 10GB 21,027 User benchmarks, average bench 31% null MHz 4096, 4096, 2048 MB Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	47.6% Average	MC Read 20 MC Write 15.3 MC Mixed 15.4 48% 16.9 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 12.1 31% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 45%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	433x
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 $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	29x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	326x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	183x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	173x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $134

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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