Asus M5A78L-M LX3

Performance Results


Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 41% Speed boat	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 38.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	9.77% 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	20.7% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M LX3 (all builds)
Memory	8.2 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130419
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Mar 17 '17 at 18:58
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X4 B60 1,386 User benchmarks, average bench 56% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	38.2% Below average	Memory 58.5 1-Core 28 2-Core 69.8 34% 52.1 Pts	4-Core 98.8 8-Core 155 16% 127 Pts	64-Core 158 10% 158 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 63%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Gigabyte(1458 3537) 1GB CLim: 970 MHz, MLim: 1025 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	9.77% Terrible	Lighting 10.9 Reflection 12.8 Parallax 3.12 9% 8.93 fps	MRender 15.2 Gravity 11.4 Splatting 15.3 12% 14 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.77% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
GOODRAM 120GB 5,433 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM10.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 943 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 464 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 94 94 108 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1310760 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 70 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1776	20.7% Poor	Read 96.1 Write 87.3 Mixed 129 23% 104 MB/s	4K Read 11.2 4K Write 18.7 4K Mixed 6.23 35% 12.1 MB/s	DQ Read 23.3 DQ Write 35.6 DQ Mixed 8.73 12% 22.6 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 20.7% Great: 97%
Seagate ST3160815AS 160GB-$46 33,785 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 95GB free Firmware: 4.AAA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7231 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 689694682 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 15906 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6800 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 66 47 571932706 (C2) HDA temperature 34 53 73014444066 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 65 90265328 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 180 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	34.9% Below average	Read 63.2 Write 58.6 Mixed 54.6 44% 58.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.13 4K Write 0.67 4K Mixed 0.14 33% 0.31 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 12GB 85,415 User benchmarks, average bench 35% null MHz 4096, 8192 MB Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	24.1% Poor	MC Read 9.2 MC Write 6.7 MC Mixed 10.2 25% 8.7 GB/s	SC Read 3.5 SC Write 4.8 SC Mixed 5.6 13% 4.63 GB/s	Latency 132 30% 132 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 24.1% Great: 50%

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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 LX3 - $147

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	536x
FX-8300AMD $168Bench 58%, 49,767 samples	207x
FX-4300AMD $73Bench 52%, 55,454 samples	152x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	180x
GTX 1050Nvidia $101Bench 26%, 269,381 samples	107x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	75x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	54x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	30x
A400 120GBKingston $30Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	29x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	427x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	391x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	266x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $280

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 $177	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