Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU, SSD
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 55.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
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 M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	2.1 GB free of 4 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161118
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 21:13
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	25%

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 FX-8320E-$87 33,199 User benchmarks, average bench 58% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 2.55 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	55.4% Above average	Memory 82.7 1-Core 28.8 2-Core 57.7 41% 56.4 Pts	4-Core 154 8-Core 351 29% 253 Pts	64-Core 350 22% 350 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro FX 1700 2,013 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Nvidia(10DE 049A) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.0 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 1% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 438GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 63 168182499 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 400 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 8702998336 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2456 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 398 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 6 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 51 655687717 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 400 (C2) HDA temperature 37 15 64424509477 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 168182499 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -122153164863083 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10831675699 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14118628501	80.8% Excellent	Read 137 Write 144 Mixed 83.9 90% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.26 90% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 113%
Toshiba MK1652GSX 160GB-$30 2,145 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 88GB free Firmware: LV020J Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1040 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1184 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 1809 (0A) Spinup retry count 123 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 949 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 39 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 17882 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 253404184608 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 4138 (DE) Loaded hours 97 97 1569 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 366 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	27.2% Poor	Read 46.4 Write 48.3 Mixed 25.7 30% 40.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.21 61% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 27.2% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1x4GB 154,807 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 1 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR3 Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	27.7% Poor	MC Read 9.5 MC Write 9.4 MC Mixed 8.1 26% 9 GB/s	SC Read 6.9 SC Write 5.9 SC Mixed 8.8 21% 7.2 GB/s	Latency 75.7 53% 75.7 ns
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 27.7% Great: 52%

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

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	433x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	294x
FX-8300AMD $168Bench 58%, 49,767 samples	176x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	177x
Radeon RX 560-BAMDBench 20%, 49,289 samples	86x
GTX 1050Nvidia $101Bench 26%, 269,381 samples	84x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	60x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	43x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	29x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	326x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	183x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	173x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $134

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