Asus M5A78L/USB3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 3% Tree trunk	Desktop 47% Yacht	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 49.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	7.6% 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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	4.9 GB free of 6 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130427
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 13:20
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	UKR-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 X3 445-$100 3,101 User benchmarks, average bench 44% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 3 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	49.3% Average	Memory 75.7 1-Core 46.2 2-Core 90.8 46% 70.9 Pts	4-Core 135 8-Core 137 18% 136 Pts	64-Core 136 8% 136 Pts
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 51%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS-512 1,256 User benchmarks, average bench 7% MSI(1462 8010) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 285.62 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	7.6% Terrible	Lighting 10.4 Reflection 9.54 Parallax 4.22 8% 8.04 fps	MRender 8.05 Gravity 7.93 Splatting 6.3 6% 7.43 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 7.6% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 568GB free (System drive) Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 72 (03) Spinup time 126 126 12897026228 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2323 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 115 115 34 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 12180 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2249 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 3918 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4033 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 236224577575 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4	62.7% Good	Read 79.9 Write 139 Mixed 10.5 55% 76.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0.2 41% 0.29 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 107%
Samsung SP2514N 250GB 598 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 233GB free Firmware: VF100-50 Max speed: UDMA 100 100 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 1 5824 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15212 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 8702 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11065 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8858 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 458889 (BE) vendor-specific 148 79 30 (C2) HDA temperature 148 79 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 30645 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 185 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0	35.4% Below average	Read 63.9 Write 59.1 Mixed 23.7 36% 48.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.38 90% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 35.4% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6GB 111,301 User benchmarks, average bench 25% null MHz 4096, 2048 MB Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	23.9% Poor	MC Read 9.2 MC Write 6.6 MC Mixed 7.3 22% 7.7 GB/s	SC Read 7.5 SC Write 6.6 SC Mixed 6.2 19% 6.77 GB/s	Latency 88.8 45% 88.8 ns
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 23.9% Great: 46%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L/USB3

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	15x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	14x
FX-4100AMD $110Bench 51%, 32,471 samples	9x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	8x
GTX 650Nvidia $112Bench 8%, 69,673 samples	6x
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	5x

SSD
BX500 240GBCrucial $29Bench 56%, 142,801 samples	4x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	4x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	3x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	27x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	19x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	11x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $218

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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