MSI H61M-P31/W8 (MS-7788)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 32% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 75%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	57.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

System	MSI MS-7788
Motherboard	MSI H61M-P31/W8 (MS-7788) (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130929
Uptime	4.3 Days
Run Date	Jul 19 '17 at 16:49
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3470-$59 223,595 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75% Very good	Memory 85.2 1-Core 98.7 2-Core 194 73% 126 Pts	4-Core 376 8-Core 378 50% 377 Pts	64-Core 378 23% 378 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367A) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	57.9% Above average	Lighting 73.8 Reflection 71.3 Parallax 64.5 60% 69.9 fps	MRender 75.5 Gravity 66.6 Splatting 58.1 54% 66.7 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 93GB free (System drive) Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 234277726 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 46977538 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 31060 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8240 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 48 48 52 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 54 521338911 (C2) HDA temperature 31 46 51539607583 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 23 234277726 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -93192200347112 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3960881139 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2027591418	54.3% Above average	Read 90.8 Write 98.4 Mixed 69.7 64% 86.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.31 75% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 88%
Seagate ST3250310AS 250GB-$44 34,705 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 57GB free Firmware: 3.AAC Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 124087337 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1334 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 89 60 938449481 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25762 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 845 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 49 538902560 (C2) HDA temperature 32 51 60129542176 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 70 61 190739265 (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	48.2% Average	Read 84.3 Write 83.8 Mixed 85.3 64% 84.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.29 82% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 04CB 12GB 500 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 4096 MB Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.9% Average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 12.8 40% 14 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 13.9 SC Mixed 13.2 37% 13.1 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 72%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 60%

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Workstation 7%

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Motherboard: MSI H61M-P31/W8 (MS-7788) - $64

CPU
Core i5-3470Intel $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples	108x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	94x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	56x

GPU
HD 2500 (Desktop 1.05 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 146,665 samples	118x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	57x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	38x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	29x
A400 120GBKingston $30Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	23x
Green 120GB (2018)WD $59Bench 43%, 69,933 samples	12x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	16x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	11x
M378B1G73DB0-CK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 55%, 9,947 samples	9x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $151

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16