Asus M4A78-EM

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 44% Speed boat	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 44.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	6.6% 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	30.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus M4A78-EM (all builds)
Memory	2.1 GB free of 6 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20090918
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Oct 12 '16 at 21:36
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon II X4 640-$70 18,839 User benchmarks, average bench 45% AM2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	44.1% Average	Memory 61.1 1-Core 43.7 2-Core 87.6 40% 64.1 Pts	4-Core 159 8-Core 158 21% 159 Pts	64-Core 171 11% 171 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 44.1% Great: 53%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5670 18,196 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Asus(1043 0356) 1GB Driver: atiumd64.dll Ver. 8.673.0.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	6.6% Terrible	Lighting 7.8 Reflection 8.88 Parallax 6.16 6% 7.61 fps	MRender 7.86 Gravity 5.2 Splatting 11.6 7% 8.22 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.6% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$36 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 59GB free (System drive) Firmware: 527ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 23712958 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 64553358462954 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1251 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 20 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 33 45 73017393185 (C2) HDA temperature 33 45 73017393185 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 23712958 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 23712958 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 23712958 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5547 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5948 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5948 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7099	30.5% Below average	Read 182 Write 107 Mixed 111 29% 133 MB/s	4K Read 12.9 4K Write 35.6 4K Mixed 9.35 50% 19.3 MB/s	DQ Read 21.8 DQ Write 61 DQ Mixed 10.1 17% 31 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 30.5% Great: 73%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$23 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 165GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 139 3991 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7523 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7313 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2494 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 119 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7403 (C2) HDA temperature 104 94 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	53.8% Above average	Read 92.9 Write 94.7 Mixed 28.4 53% 72 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.26 72% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 69%
ASMT 2105 2TB 340 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1TB free, PID 5136 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	12.5% Very poor	Read 23.8 Write 18.2 Mixed 11.4 21% 17.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.21 64% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 12.5% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6GB 111,301 User benchmarks, average bench 25% null MHz 2048, 2048, 1024, 1024 MB Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	22.7% Poor	MC Read 8.4 MC Write 6.7 MC Mixed 8.2 22% 7.77 GB/s	SC Read 5.3 SC Write 6 SC Mixed 6.6 17% 5.97 GB/s	Latency 124 32% 124 ns
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 22.7% Great: 46%

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Typical M4A78-EM Builds (Compare 13 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 5%

Tree trunk

Desktop 49%

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Workstation 5%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus M4A78-EM

CPU
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 51%, 41,403 samples	3x
Phenom II X4 960TAMD $469Bench 54%, 4,461 samples	2x
Phenom II X4 945AMDBench 51%, 12,746 samples	1x

GPU
GeForce GT 710NvidiaBench 3%, 187,161 samples	3x
Radeon HD 3200ATIBench 1%, 5,730 samples	2x
GTX 460Nvidia $203Bench 12%, 31,648 samples	1x

SSD
850 Evo 120GBSamsung $80Bench 96%, 69,224 samples	1x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	1x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	1x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	6x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	4x
3x2GBUnknownBench 30%, 45,030 samples	2x

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