Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

Performance Results


Gaming 25% Raft	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 21% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 71.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	30.4% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	26% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB 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.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141202
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 18 '16 at 15:57
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.4% Very good	Memory 90.7 1-Core 73 2-Core 147 63% 103 Pts	4-Core 283 8-Core 438 44% 360 Pts	64-Core 439 27% 439 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% MSI(1462 3030) 2GB CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 16.11.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	30.4% Below average	Lighting 38.3 Reflection 34.8 Parallax 45.9 31% 39.7 fps	MRender 30.8 Gravity 32.2 Splatting 40.4 29% 34.5 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 30.4% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ AGILITY3 480GB 804 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.28 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 146254833947 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 -129510443816422 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 213 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 192 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 10520 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 225945883 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 8 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 225945883 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 225945883 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22593 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13691 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13691 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11416	26% Poor	Read 140 Write 137 Mixed 96.9 28% 125 MB/s	4K Read 13.1 4K Write 11.3 4K Mixed 9.12 38% 11.2 MB/s	DQ Read 18.6 DQ Write 12.6 DQ Mixed 9.09 9% 13.5 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 26% Great: 41%
Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB-$102 29,256 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 80GB free Firmware: 3.AAK Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 88 242089820 (03) Spinup time 98 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14445 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 399575306 (09) Power-on hours count 29 29 62348 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 345 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 36 790167590 (C2) HDA temperature 38 64 85899345958 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 52 198352763 (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	37.1% Below average	Read 64.6 Write 64.4 Mixed 27.4 38% 52.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.24 85% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 37.1% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.4% Average	MC Read 19.7 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 17.3 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 13 30% 10.4 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 97%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 - $53

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	506x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	324x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	185x

GPU
Radeon 3000 GraphicsATIBench 1%, 21,841 samples	139x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	127x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	90x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	56x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	48x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	354x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	345x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	309x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $128

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) $35	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