Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

Performance Results


Gaming 40% Speed boat	Desktop 61% Destroyer	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 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 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 51.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	75.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	27.9% 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.

Very high background CPU (81%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3 (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160627
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 23:25
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	81%

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PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6350 Six-Core-$100 29,222 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AM3R2, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	51.3% Above average	Memory 78.2 1-Core 55.4 2-Core 88.5 49% 74 Pts	4-Core 134 8-Core 196 21% 165 Pts	64-Core 271 17% 271 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 66%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	75.9% Very good	Lighting 95 Reflection 107 Parallax 99.7 77% 100 fps	MRender 91.6 Gravity 80.5 Splatting 93.9 73% 88.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 9GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th 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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2106 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 441 (64) Unknown 100 100 2830528 (65) Unknown 100 100 511488 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 18 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 98 98 834 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1267 (B7) Unknown 98 98 11 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 23 100 171799543831 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5058 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2745 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3553 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5407 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	27.9% Poor	Read 196 Write 110 Mixed 77.5 28% 128 MB/s	4K Read 12.4 4K Write 23.5 4K Mixed 7.66 41% 14.5 MB/s	DQ Read 24.7 DQ Write 32.8 DQ Mixed 7.93 12% 21.8 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 27.9% Great: 88%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 67 (03) Spinup time 128 128 21494169895 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1491 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2052 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 452 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1491 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1491 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 180389347355 (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 0	99.8% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 176 Mixed 136 120% 161 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.22 105% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	40.8% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 12.5 MC Mixed 14.9 42% 14.8 GB/s	SC Read 7.6 SC Write 7.4 SC Mixed 9.7 24% 8.23 GB/s	Latency 83.9 48% 83.9 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 97%

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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 $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	433x
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	86x
GTX 1050Nvidia $101Bench 26%, 269,381 samples	84x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	60x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	43x
A400 120GBKingston $32Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	29x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	326x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	183x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	173x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $134

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