Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 45% Yacht	Workstation 33% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 moderate gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 56.1%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	68.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

3 months ago, 2 months ago, 2 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	5.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161118
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 06:32
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
AMD FX-6300-$65 95,947 User benchmarks, average bench 46% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	56.1% Above average	SC Int 88.4 SC Float 75.8 SC Mixed 81.1 66% 81.8 Pts	QC Int 300 QC Float 258 QC Mixed 274 63% 277 Pts	MC Int 394 MC Float 342 MC Mixed 387 56% 374 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 55%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$225 117,366 User benchmarks, average bench 67% EVGA(3842 6162) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	68.5% Good	Lighting 204 Reflection 185 Parallax 198 62% 196 fps	MRender 149 Gravity 200 Splatting 165 73% 171 fps
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 72%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba P300 1TB-$45 24,660 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 778GB free (System drive) Firmware: MS2OA8J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 68 (03) Spinup time 148 148 12895715472 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 68 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 118 118 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 141 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 68 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 68 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 68 (C2) HDA temperature 139 139 214749806635 (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 200 200 0	99.1% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 173 Mixed 66.1 101% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.21 83% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1x8GB 34,471 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	35.3% Below average	MC Read 12.6 MC Write 11.6 MC Mixed 10.3 33% 11.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.1 SC Write 7.1 SC Mixed 11.1 28% 9.77 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 35.3% Great: 45%

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

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Gaming 33%

Sail boat

Desktop 42%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

CPU
FX-6300AMD $65Bench 46%, 95,947 samples	721x
FX-8350AMD $90Bench 55%, 128,186 samples	532x
FX-8300AMD $78Bench 49%, 13,198 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $155Bench 39%, 177,574 samples	385x
GTX 1050Nvidia $129Bench 34%, 49,764 samples	214x
Radeon 3000 GraphicsATIBench 1%, 7,029 samples	192x

SSD
SSD Plus 120GBSanDisk $42Bench 56%, 24,019 samples	71x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 106%, 288,084 samples	70x
SSD Plus 240GBSanDisk $54Bench 59%, 35,338 samples	41x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 40%, 135,439 samples	710x
1x8GBUnknownBench 32%, 34,471 samples	550x
2x8GBUnknownBench 52%, 42,858 samples	421x

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Total price: $262

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $320	Nvidia GTX 1070 $413	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $100
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $150	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $289	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $121
Intel Core i7-7700K $300	AMD RX 480 $280	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $125

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $176	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $44
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $945	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $58	HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB $219	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12