Asus M3A78-T

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 47% Yacht	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 48.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	6.21% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Asus M3A78-T (all builds)
Memory	1.4 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20100921
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '18 at 23:39
Run Duration	445 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 41% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	48.9% Average	Memory 84.1 1-Core 37.6 2-Core 79.8 46% 67.2 Pts	4-Core 83.7 8-Core 81.8 11% 82.8 Pts	64-Core 85.2 5% 85.2 Pts
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 48%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5670 18,196 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Sapphire(174B E166) 512MB Driver: aticfx32.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	6.21% Terrible	Lighting 7.6 Reflection 8.58 Parallax 6.09 6% 7.42 fps	MRender 8.14 Gravity 5.13 Splatting 9.09 6% 7.45 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.21% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 611GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 166 2341 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4935 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7956 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4928 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4938 (C2) HDA temperature 108 103 35 (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	80.8% Excellent	Read 140 Write 142 Mixed 121 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.25 91% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 109%
WD My Passport 0820 1TB 16,483 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 274GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	13.9% Very poor	Read 23.3 Write 24.3 Mixed 21.5 30% 23 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.18 64% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 13.9% Great: 44%
Seagate FA GoFlex Desk 500GB 153 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 95GB free, PID 5071 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	14.4% Very poor	Read 24.6 Write 23.4 Mixed 16.4 27% 21.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.47 80% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 14.4% Great: 21%
Generic Flash Disk 1GB 44 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 1GB free, PID 2095 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	3.21% Terrible	Read 10.8 Write 3.6 Mixed 5.22 7% 6.55 MB/s	4K Read 3.41 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 14% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.21% Great: 5%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x1GB 54,972 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 4 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR2 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	22.4% Poor	MC Read 7.2 MC Write 6.9 MC Mixed 6.1 19% 6.73 GB/s	SC Read 6.4 SC Write 7.2 SC Mixed 6.4 19% 6.67 GB/s	Latency 73.3 55% 73.3 ns
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 22.4% Great: 28%

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Typical M3A78-T Builds (Compare 8 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 25%

Raft

Desktop 56%

Gunboat

Workstation 19%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Asus M3A78-T

CPU
Phenom 9950AMDBench 46%, 2,150 samples	3x
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 51%, 41,403 samples	2x
Phenom II X6 1055TAMD $175Bench 54%, 23,835 samples	1x

GPU
R9 390AMD $325Bench 50%, 82,117 samples	2x
GeForce 9600 GTNvidiaBench 4%, 20,826 samples	1x
Radeon HD 5570AMDBench 4%, 12,172 samples	1x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	1x
CS900 500GB SSDPNYBench 75%, 16,267 samples	1x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	1x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	3x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	2x
4x1GBUnknownBench 18%, 54,972 samples	2x

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Value: 39% - Below average

Total price: $391

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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