Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 29% Raft	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 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 an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 27.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	8% 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	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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	4.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140911
Uptime	6 Days
Run Date	Dec 06 '18 at 23:31
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Sempron 145-$50 3,678 User benchmarks, average bench 36% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 1 cores, 1 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	27.1% Poor	Memory 52.8 1-Core 17.9 2-Core 16.6 24% 29.1 Pts	4-Core 10.9 8-Core 18.8 2% 14.8 Pts	64-Core 16.7 1% 16.7 Pts
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 27.1% Great: 44%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon HD 4770 1,570 User benchmarks, average bench 8% XFX(1682 2900) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	8% Terrible	Lighting 9.53 Reflection 9.69 Parallax 8.78 8% 9.34 fps	MRender 8.24 Gravity 8.43 Splatting 13.1 8% 9.92 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 8% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
AMD 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 250GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.10 SusWrite @10s intervals: 29 39 30 36 45 46 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	23.7% Poor	Read 44.7 Write 21.8 Mixed 21.7 SusWrite 37.5 23% 31.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 1 144% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 23.7% Great: 52%
WD WD25 00JS-58NCB1 250GB 17,984 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 169GB free Firmware: 20.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 37 45 41 43 53 54 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	26.8% Poor	Read 47.7 Write 59.2 Mixed 40.5 SusWrite 45.3 36% 48.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.6 124% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 26.8% Great: 35%

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 way below expectations (5^th percentile)	14.8% Very poor	MC Read 5.3 MC Write 4.4 MC Mixed 5.2 14% 4.97 GB/s	SC Read 3.4 SC Write 3.5 SC Mixed 3.2 10% 3.37 GB/s	Latency 151 26% 151 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 14.8% Great: 65%

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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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Gaming 5%

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Desktop 50%

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Workstation 5%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 - $53

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	514x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	328x
FX-8320AMD $125Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	186x

GPU
Radeon 3000 GraphicsATIBench 1%, 21,841 samples	139x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	127x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	91x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	56x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	48x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	357x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	351x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	311x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $171

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Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $359