Biostar A68MD PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 46% Yacht	Workstation 4% 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 42.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	3.32% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	29.4% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Biostar A68MD PRO (all builds)
Memory	4.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151215
Uptime	7 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '18 at 23:41
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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 A6-5400K APU-$120 7,836 User benchmarks, average bench 40% P0, 1 CPU, 1 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	42.6% Average	Memory 68.9 1-Core 66 2-Core 97 49% 77.3 Pts	4-Core 97.7 8-Core 99.5 13% 98.6 Pts	64-Core 97.3 6% 97.3 Pts
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 42.6% Great: 52%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 7540D 4,337 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Biostar(1565 1708) 768MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.32% Terrible	Lighting 4.03 Reflection 4.38 Parallax 3.41 3% 3.94 fps	MRender 4.38 Gravity 2.93 Splatting 4.87 3% 4.06 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.32% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba OCZ TL100 120GB-$80 2,275 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFZ10.1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (13^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 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2697 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 847 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 187 187 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 31 (C2) HDA temperature 71 63 158914969629 (F1) Unknown 100 100 88541	29.4% Poor	Read 237 Write 58.5 Mixed 108 29% 134 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 21.6 4K Mixed 5.09 53% 16.7 MB/s	DQ Read 33.2 DQ Write 32.3 DQ Mixed 7.9 13% 24.5 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 29.4% Great: 82%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 405GB free Firmware: 0006HPM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 184583568 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7656 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 4468588009 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14307 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 37 5263 (B7) Unknown 100 253 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 10 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 45 555221024 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 303662 (C2) HDA temperature 32 55 -14070312861664 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 41 184583568 (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 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	42.1% Average	Read 97.6 Write 49.2 Mixed 87.2 59% 78 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.21 61% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GB-$35 38,490 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	27.4% Poor	MC Read 12.7 MC Write 5.3 MC Mixed 9.2 26% 9.07 GB/s	SC Read 7.7 SC Write 7.2 SC Mixed 10.6 24% 8.5 GB/s	Latency 104 38% 104 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 27.4% Great: 67%

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

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Typical A68MD PRO Builds (Compare 64 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 10%

Tree trunk

Desktop 52%

Yacht

Workstation 9%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Biostar A68MD PRO

CPU
A10 PRO-7850B R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8GAMDBench 49%, 444 samples	13x
A10-8750 Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8GAMDBench 43%, 1,794 samples	7x
A10-7700K APU (2014 D.Ka)AMDBench 45%, 11,026 samples	6x

GPU
Radeon R7 GraphicsAMDBench 6%, 25,284 samples	10x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	8x
GTX 560Nvidia $180Bench 14%, 23,273 samples	3x

SSD
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	3x
870 QVO 1TBSamsung $105Bench 95%, 80,665 samples	2x
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	2x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	20x
99U5471-054.A00LF 1x8GBKingstonBench 30%, 12,132 samples	3x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	3x

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Value: 22% - Poor

Total price: $52

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $109	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16