Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	45% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	10GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 10GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	8.5 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20161118
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 02 '18 at 06:36
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	Memory 90.4 1-Core 79.3 2-Core 159 66% 110 Pts	4-Core 296 8-Core 488 48% 392 Pts	64-Core 485 30% 485 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85B6) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.7% Good	Lighting 80.2 Reflection 79.9 Parallax 69.4 65% 76.5 fps	MRender 73 Gravity 73.3 Splatting 74.4 60% 73.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS900 120GB-$25 42,924 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 59GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS90 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	45% Average	Read 235 Write 207 Mixed 224 50% 222 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 53.1 4K Mixed 7.91 73% 28.1 MB/s	DQ Read 25.7 DQ Write 73.7 DQ Mixed 8.27 18% 35.9 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 45% Great: 87%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$90 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 3TB free Firmware: 80.0 Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	77.9% Very good	Read 131 Write 140 Mixed 127 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.28 108% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 10GB 21,027 User benchmarks, average bench 31% null MHz 4096, 4096, 2048 MB Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	40.7% Average	MC Read 15.8 MC Write 13.9 MC Mixed 12 40% 13.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 11 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 66.7 60% 66.7 ns
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 45%

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

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	436x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	294x
FX-8300AMD $168Bench 58%, 49,767 samples	176x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	177x
Radeon RX 560-BAMDBench 20%, 49,289 samples	87x
GTX 1050Nvidia $101Bench 26%, 269,381 samples	85x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	60x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	43x
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	29x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	327x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	183x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	174x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $177

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	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