Asus M3A78-CM

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 38% Jet ski	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 38.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	3.52% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M3A78-CM (all builds)
Memory	3.2 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20080901
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 16 '17 at 23:20
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ 956 User benchmarks, average bench 38% AM2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	38.8% Below average	Memory 64 1-Core 41.6 2-Core 82.6 40% 62.7 Pts	4-Core 80.9 8-Core 81.8 11% 81.4 Pts	64-Core 82.2 5% 82.2 Pts
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 46%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 19,550 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Device(7377 0000) 1GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 8.15.11.8593 Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	3.52% Terrible	Lighting 4.27 Reflection 4.38 Parallax 2.62 4% 3.76 fps	MRender 3.52 Gravity 6 Splatting 3.83 4% 4.45 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 3.52% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 500GB 64,410 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 450GB free (System drive) Firmware: GG2OA6C0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 21474836480 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 10250 (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 93 93 3255 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1965 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 138226 (C2) HDA temperature 136 136 188979216428 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	51.2% Above average	Read 78.2 Write 100 Mixed 16.9 47% 65.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.17 57% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 58%
Samsung HD320KJ 320GB 3,147 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 218GB free Firmware: CP100-13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 2688 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4123 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3888 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2220 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 7270944 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 12 (BE) vendor-specific 59 55 41 (C2) HDA temperature 112 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 7270944 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	40.6% Average	Read 69 Write 72.4 Mixed 33.2 43% 58.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.39 87% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 45%
Seagate ST3250823ACE 250GB 45 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 155GB free Firmware: 3.01 Max speed: UDMA 100 100 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 63 46 4307638 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 715 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4353378 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 624 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 709 (C2) HDA temperature 47 54 64424509487 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 62 46 4307638 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	38.7% Below average	Read 66.8 Write 68.2 Mixed 34.5 42% 56.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 0.82 4K Mixed 0.37 86% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x2GB 446,702 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 2 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR2 Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	20.7% Poor	MC Read 6.8 MC Write 6.9 MC Mixed 6.4 19% 6.7 GB/s	SC Read 5.7 SC Write 7.2 SC Mixed 6 18% 6.3 GB/s	Latency 116 34% 116 ns
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 20.7% Great: 44%

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Typical M3A78-CM Builds (Compare 20 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 9%

Tree trunk

Desktop 55%

Yacht

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus M3A78-CM

CPU
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 51%, 41,403 samples	3x
Phenom II X4 945AMDBench 51%, 12,746 samples	2x
Athlon II X4 630AMDBench 45%, 7,197 samples	2x

GPU
GTX 460Nvidia $203Bench 12%, 31,648 samples	2x
GeForce GT 620NvidiaBench 2%, 17,163 samples	2x
GTX 770Nvidia $279Bench 34%, 116,895 samples	1x

SSD
Trion 150 240GBOCZ $196Bench 79%, 15,660 samples	1x
Sata III 128GBIntensoBench 67%, 2,059 samples	1x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	1x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	12x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	2x
4GBUnknownBench 26%, 42,830 samples	1x

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Value: 21% - Poor

Total price: $482

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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