Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 55% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 71.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	93.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	52.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140911
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Oct 14 '17 at 20:47
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th 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 (100^th percentile)	71.7% Very good	Memory 94 1-Core 75.6 2-Core 144 65% 105 Pts	4-Core 269 8-Core 450 44% 359 Pts	64-Core 450 28% 450 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2602 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	93.9% Outstanding	Lighting 111 Reflection 150 Parallax 141 90% 134 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 142 Splatting 114 101% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q 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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2437 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1858 (B1) Unknown 96 96 47 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 59 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 107 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12738806254	52.6% Above average	Read 254 Write 164 Mixed 174 44% 197 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 35.4 4K Mixed 19.2 92% 28.9 MB/s	DQ Read 144 DQ Write 84.6 DQ Mixed 43.3 51% 90.7 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 108%
Toshiba MQ01ABD075 750GB-$40 42,694 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 601GB free Firmware: AX001C Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1725 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2468 (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 91 91 3817 (0A) Spinup retry count 149 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2381 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 11 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 53 387055639 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 29 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2359332 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 38648 (C2) HDA temperature 77 53 387055639 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	47.7% Average	Read 80.8 Write 85.4 Mixed 87.8 64% 84.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.17 60% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 57%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$29 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 196GB free Firmware: MS2OA7L0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 65536 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 121 121 12897288382 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1897 (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 100 100 2532 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1822 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1901 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1901 (C2) HDA temperature 250 250 197569085464 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2	57.2% Above average	Read 120 Write 79.9 Mixed 111 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.14 54% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	51.8% Above average	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 18.3 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 9.3 SC Mixed 14.3 33% 11.6 GB/s	Latency 59.7 67% 59.7 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 61%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 - $53

CPU
FX-6300AMD $57Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	505x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	324x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	185x

GPU
Radeon 3000 GraphicsATIBench 1%, 21,841 samples	139x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	127x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	90x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	56x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	48x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	354x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	345x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	309x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $138

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	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