Asus M3A78-T

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 52% Yacht	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 52.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	8.68% 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	45.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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 M3A78-T (all builds)
Memory	4.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110127
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 30 '18 at 21:23
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (45^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 940 3,675 User benchmarks, average bench 49% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	52.7% Above average	Memory 77.6 1-Core 44.1 2-Core 85.4 46% 69 Pts	4-Core 162 8-Core 167 22% 165 Pts	64-Core 173 11% 173 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 56%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI HD 4870 22,563 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Asus(1043 024E) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001 Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	8.68% Terrible	Lighting 11.1 Reflection 9.62 Parallax 8.06 9% 9.58 fps	MRender 7.86 Gravity 7.63 Splatting 12.6 8% 9.37 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 8.68% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (8^th 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 4269 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1686 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 70 (AE) Unknown 100 100 176 (B5) Unknown 100 100 5016534057940 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 95 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 549 (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 100 100 142243 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	45.8% Average	Read 259 Write 217 Mixed 240 53% 239 MB/s	4K Read 18.6 4K Write 48.9 4K Mixed 5.65 61% 24.4 MB/s	DQ Read 121 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 5.9 34% 77 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 74%
Samsung HD642JJ 640GB-$70 13,060 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 32GB free Firmware: 1AA01109 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 48 2866 (03) Spinup time 85 85 5330 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4524 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 27606 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4215 (0D) Soft read error rate 99 52 2618 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 11113 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 52 470679580 (C2) HDA temperature 69 51 521011231 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 5533533 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 8 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 99 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	36.5% Below average	Read 61.6 Write 65.3 Mixed 66.4 49% 64.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.46 107% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR2 Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	26.7% Poor	MC Read 10.1 MC Write 6.8 MC Mixed 9.8 25% 8.9 GB/s	SC Read 5.7 SC Write 6.1 SC Mixed 7.8 19% 6.53 GB/s	Latency 85.1 47% 85.1 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 26.7% Great: 45%

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Gaming 25%

Raft

Desktop 56%

Gunboat

Workstation 19%

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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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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