Asus M4A79XTD EVO

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 57% Gunboat	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 54.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	13.4% 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	26.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus M4A79XTD EVO (all builds)
Memory	8.8 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20091125
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 07 '18 at 10:48
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	49%

PC Performing as expected (60^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 955-$83 41,403 User benchmarks, average bench 51% AM3, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	54.5% Above average	Memory 84 1-Core 44.6 2-Core 84.2 48% 70.9 Pts	4-Core 145 8-Core 161 20% 153 Pts	64-Core 155 10% 155 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Asus(1043 03AA) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	13.4% Very poor	Lighting 17.6 Reflection 13.2 Parallax 14.5 14% 15.1 fps	MRender 11.6 Gravity 11.7 Splatting 17.7 12% 13.6 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.4% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 63GB free (System drive) Firmware: 525ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 7512061 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6957847022140 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 782 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 53 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 33 54 73017983009 (C2) HDA temperature 33 54 73017983009 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7512061 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7512061 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7512061 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2674 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2240 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2240 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1282	26.5% Poor	Read 117 Write 88.6 Mixed 88 22% 97.8 MB/s	4K Read 14.1 4K Write 39.3 4K Mixed 7.02 51% 20.1 MB/s	DQ Read 13.7 DQ Write 62.8 DQ Mixed 5.39 14% 27.3 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 26.5% Great: 73%
Seagate ST3320613AS 320GB-$30 12,971 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 298GB free Firmware: SD11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 189993591 (03) Spinup time 97 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5260 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 73209763 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7369 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 10 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2959 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 21475164250 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 48 504627230 (C2) HDA temperature 30 52 51539607582 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 16 189993591 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	63.2% Good	Read 108 Write 112 Mixed 77.8 74% 99.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.38 78% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 12GB 85,415 User benchmarks, average bench 35% null MHz 4096, 4096, 2048, 2048 MB Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	31.4% Below average	MC Read 13.1 MC Write 7.5 MC Mixed 11.4 30% 10.7 GB/s	SC Read 6.4 SC Write 6.5 SC Mixed 7.9 20% 6.93 GB/s	Latency 73.4 54% 73.4 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 31.4% Great: 50%

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

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 54%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Asus M4A79XTD EVO

CPU
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 51%, 41,403 samples	26x
Phenom II X4 965AMD $144Bench 53%, 43,442 samples	26x
Phenom II X6 1100TAMD $340Bench 59%, 12,769 samples	12x

GPU
HD 5770AMDBench 10%, 37,602 samples	13x
R9 270XAMD $199Bench 27%, 77,943 samples	4x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	4x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	6x
C300-CTFDDAC128M 128GBCrucialBench 47%, 288 samples	3x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	3x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	27x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	14x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	13x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $111

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	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