Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 53% Yacht	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 47.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	23.6% 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	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	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.

Very high background CPU (58%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	3.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141202
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '18 at 20:52
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	58%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8100 Eight-Core 513 User benchmarks, average bench 55% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	47.6% Average	Memory 73 1-Core 38.4 2-Core 74.3 42% 61.9 Pts	4-Core 124 8-Core 170 18% 147 Pts	64-Core 169 10% 169 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 61%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 370-$153 39,178 User benchmarks, average bench 21% Gigabyte(1458 2015) CLim: 1015 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.12.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	23.6% Poor	Lighting 27.8 Reflection 31 Parallax 35 23% 31.3 fps	MRender 29 Gravity 23.5 Splatting 37.5 25% 30 fps
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 23.6% Great: 23%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB-$25 163,843 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 395GB free (System drive) Firmware: MS1OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 72 (03) Spinup time 126 126 12896895158 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1624 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 118 118 33 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 18864 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1595 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1625 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1625 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 167504707619 (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 8	76.4% Very good	Read 119 Write 148 Mixed 117 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.18 57% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	29.9% Poor	MC Read 12 MC Write 9.9 MC Mixed 9.8 30% 10.6 GB/s	SC Read 5.3 SC Write 5.4 SC Mixed 7.8 18% 6.17 GB/s	Latency 94.6 42% 94.6 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 29.9% Great: 65%

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

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Gaming 5%

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Desktop 50%

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Workstation 5%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 - $53

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	514x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	328x
FX-8320AMD $125Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	186x

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	91x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	56x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	48x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	357x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	351x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	311x

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