Asus M3A78-EM

Performance Results


Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 39% Jet ski	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (32nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 68 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 37.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	6.99% 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	24.9% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M3A78-EM (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20090316
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 31 '18 at 23:20
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing below expectations (32^nd 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% AM2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	37.7% Below average	Memory 63.1 1-Core 22.8 2-Core 42.5 31% 42.8 Pts	4-Core 75.1 8-Core 73.3 10% 74.2 Pts	64-Core 68.3 4% 68.3 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 56%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 19,550 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 1721) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	6.99% Terrible	Lighting 9.43 Reflection 8.73 Parallax 3.44 8% 7.2 fps	MRender 7.86 Gravity 7.03 Splatting 6.13 6% 7.01 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.99% Great: 6%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 133GB free (System drive) Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8029312 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -2405181685134 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 420 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 17 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 39 81606934562 (C2) HDA temperature 34 39 81606934562 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8029312 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8029312 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8029312 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 8589934592 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1923 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2007 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2007 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1448	24.9% Poor	Read 146 Write 147 Mixed 143 32% 145 MB/s	4K Read 10.2 4K Write 13 4K Mixed 5.48 29% 9.56 MB/s	DQ Read 14.1 DQ Write 53.6 DQ Mixed 6.8 13% 24.8 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 24.9% Great: 85%

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 way below expectations (17^th percentile)	16.2% Very poor	MC Read 5.7 MC Write 4.1 MC Mixed 5.4 14% 5.07 GB/s	SC Read 4.4 SC Write 4.3 SC Mixed 5.4 13% 4.7 GB/s	Latency 119 34% 119 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 16.2% Great: 45%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical M3A78-EM Builds (Compare 52 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 4%

Tree trunk

Desktop 48%

Yacht

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus M3A78-EM - $18

CPU
Phenom II X4 965AMD $144Bench 53%, 43,442 samples	5x
Phenom II X2 550AMDBench 46%, 3,836 samples	4x
Phenom II X4 940AMDBench 49%, 3,675 samples	4x

GPU
Radeon HD 3200ATIBench 1%, 5,730 samples	9x
GeForce 210NvidiaBench 1%, 98,254 samples	3x
HD 4870ATIBench 9%, 22,563 samples	3x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	5x
Premier SP550 240GBAdata $74Bench 79%, 29,295 samples	2x
128GB 128GBSSDBench 65%, 7,332 samples	2x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	29x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	5x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	5x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $200

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