MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758)

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	89.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7758
Motherboard	MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758) (all builds)
Memory	14.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1842 x 1036 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121024
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 16 '17 at 19:31
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770-$297 278,207 User benchmarks, average bench 69% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.7% Excellent	Memory 96 1-Core 118 2-Core 239 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 568 64% 503 Pts	64-Core 569 35% 569 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 3670) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1645 MHz, MLim: 1977 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.5% Good	Lighting 78.9 Reflection 78.9 Parallax 70.9 64% 76.3 fps	MRender 82 Gravity 74.2 Splatting 64 59% 73.4 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 183GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 672 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 723 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 56 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 77 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16547001378	89.9% Excellent	Read 517 Write 404 Mixed 410 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 60.8 4K Mixed 31.1 112% 39.5 MB/s	DQ Read 254 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 101 109% 183 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 124%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$90 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 298GB free Firmware: 03.03E03 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 20 (03) Spinup time 138 135 4058 (04) Start/Stop count 55 55 45334 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 6 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25324 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 55 55 45187 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 81 45 (BC) Unknown 100 96 4295032850 (BE) vendor-specific 75 51 25 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 220 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 185 185 45334 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	55.2% Above average	Read 97.4 Write 94.6 Mixed 98.7 73% 96.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.43 106% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 58%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2011)-$75 18,569 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 188GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 176 1900 (04) Start/Stop count 52 52 48805 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8768 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6814 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 185 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 225 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 158 158 128212 (C2) HDA temperature 127 83 20 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	41% Average	Read 69.3 Write 73.3 Mixed 76.7 55% 73.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.2 68% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 63%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 153GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 46535760 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2192 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 360977518 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16921 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1992 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 21476016147 (BD) vendor-specific 88 88 12 (BE) vendor-specific 75 45 437846041 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 335 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 35023 (C2) HDA temperature 25 55 51539607577 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -127208341356427 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -121080318811805 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -138110292637097	75.3% Very good	Read 145 Write 118 Mixed 138 101% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.34 104% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 112%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 133GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 169 2266 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 350 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 189 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 309 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 94 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 255 (C2) HDA temperature 118 108 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	55.8% Above average	Read 93.1 Write 101 Mixed 100 74% 98 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.23 93% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	80.4% Excellent	MC Read 31.3 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 25.2 81% 28.5 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 23.2 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 53.9 74% 53.9 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 86%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758)

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	479x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	344x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	248x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	141x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	135x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	124x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	60x
MX500 500GBCrucial $46Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	54x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	48x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	42x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 47,852 samples	35x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $280

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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