Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

Performance Results


Gaming 48% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 40% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	14.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141202
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 20 '18 at 10:38
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (47^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 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.3% Very good	Memory 93.4 1-Core 85.9 2-Core 169 70% 116 Pts	4-Core 331 8-Core 526 53% 429 Pts	64-Core 524 32% 524 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1658 MHz, MLim: 2065 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60% Good	Lighting 75 Reflection 76.2 Parallax 71.8 61% 74.3 fps	MRender 82.3 Gravity 70.2 Splatting 63.6 58% 72 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 25GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU03 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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 31383 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4106 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 81 81 595 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3725 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 54 201862742041 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 33 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 81 81 19 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 42774756194 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1816283964 (F8) Unknown 100 100 3787503406	52.6% Above average	Read 268 Write 233 Mixed 251 56% 251 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 46.5 4K Mixed 15.6 75% 27.4 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 44.1 53% 93.4 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 91%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 25GB free Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd 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 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6939 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 721 (64) Unknown 100 100 3373216 (65) Unknown 100 100 713264 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3089 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 94 94 2007 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 657 (B7) Unknown 97 97 34 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 23 100 193274511383 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 2 (E7) Temperature 95 95 5 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5049 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3802 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4544 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9996 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 2	35.2% Below average	Read 250 Write 120 Mixed 132 37% 167 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 19.7 4K Mixed 7.9 48% 15.3 MB/s	DQ Read 108 DQ Write 64.2 DQ Mixed 13.9 30% 62 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 35.2% Great: 82%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.3% Average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 16.7 MC Mixed 16.7 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 9.8 SC Mixed 13.6 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 61.2 65% 61.2 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 97%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 - $53

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	506x
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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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