Asus M5A78L

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 56% Gunboat	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 56.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	11.5% 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	31.1% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110506
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 23 '18 at 00:05
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing as expected (46^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% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	56.5% Above average	Memory 82 1-Core 45.8 2-Core 93.7 48% 73.8 Pts	4-Core 182 8-Core 182 24% 182 Pts	64-Core 181 11% 181 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6790 4,043 User benchmarks, average bench 11% Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	11.5% Very poor	Lighting 14.8 Reflection 13.3 Parallax 13.1 12% 13.7 fps	MRender 11.2 Gravity 10.5 Splatting 15.2 10% 12.3 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 11.5% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (0^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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1820 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1358 (B1) Unknown 98 98 34 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 55 40 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11394587104	31.1% Below average	Read 183 Write 163 Mixed 158 38% 168 MB/s	4K Read 16.8 4K Write 14.7 4K Mixed 7.69 43% 13.1 MB/s	DQ Read 17.2 DQ Write 35.9 DQ Mixed 9.34 12% 20.8 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 31.1% Great: 124%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 553GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 1 1 287816 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 69 8816 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4830 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8087 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4062 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 202 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 44 240519348266 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 83 83 1421 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 57 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4879	57.1% Above average	Read 89 Write 110 Mixed 71.2 67% 90 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.43 110% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	32.5% Below average	MC Read 14.3 MC Write 7.4 MC Mixed 12 32% 11.2 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 6.1 SC Mixed 8.2 20% 6.97 GB/s	Latency 77 52% 77 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 32.5% Great: 65%

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

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Typical M5A78L Builds (Compare 41 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 19%

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Desktop 61%

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Workstation 14%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus M5A78L

CPU
Phenom II X4 965AMD $144Bench 53%, 43,442 samples	7x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	6x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	4x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	3x
Radeon HD 6770AMDBench 10%, 16,639 samples	2x
GTX 550-TiNvidia $250Bench 9%, 54,392 samples	2x

SSD
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	2x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	2x
SL300 120GBColorfulBench 61%, 1,356 samples	2x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	12x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	4x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	4x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $292

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