Asus M5A78L-M LX/BR

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 0% Tree trunk	Desktop 40% Jet ski	Workstation 0% Tree trunk


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 43.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	0.41% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M LX/BR (all builds)
Memory	0.9 GB free of 4 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20130419
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Jul 16 '17 at 20:09
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	COL-User
Background CPU	0%

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 Athlon II X2 270-$20 6,369 User benchmarks, average bench 43% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	43.7% Average	Memory 74.3 1-Core 44.6 2-Core 92.2 45% 70.4 Pts	4-Core 76.6 8-Core 91.8 11% 84.2 Pts	64-Core 81.2 5% 81.2 Pts
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 50%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon 3000 Graphics 21,841 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Asus(1043 8388) 256MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.782.0.0 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	0.41% Terrible	Lighting 0.37 Reflection 1 Parallax 0.16 0% 0.51 fps	MRender 0.76 Gravity 0.37 Splatting 1.04 1% 0.72 fps
Poor: 0% ↑ This bench: 0.41% Great: 1%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AC01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (03) Spinup time 92 92 3310 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7443 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 5 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 30050 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7197 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 1 1 2154 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 44 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 53 605356068 (C2) HDA temperature 62 51 638910502 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 6958866 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 5 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 182592 (C8) Write error rate 99 99 21 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	42.3% Average	Read 73.5 Write 74.3 Mixed 37.4 46% 61.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.06 4K Write 0.09 4K Mixed 0.06 10% 0.07 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1x4GB 154,807 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 1 of 2 slots used 4GB DIMM Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	22.1% Poor	MC Read 8.6 MC Write 5.8 MC Mixed 6.8 20% 7.07 GB/s	SC Read 6.3 SC Write 6 SC Mixed 6.3 18% 6.2 GB/s	Latency 91.8 44% 91.8 ns
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 22.1% Great: 52%

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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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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M LX/BR

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	125x
FX-8300AMD $168Bench 58%, 49,767 samples	49x
FX-4300AMD $73Bench 52%, 55,454 samples	42x

GPU
Radeon 3000 GraphicsATIBench 1%, 21,841 samples	26x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	25x
RX 550AMD $79Bench 14%, 79,894 samples	24x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	41x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	26x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	13x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	113x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	69x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	56x

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Value: 65% - Good

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16