MSI Z68MA-G45 (B3) (MS-7676)

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


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 a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	1.18% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	45.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7676
Motherboard	MSI Z68MA-G45 (B3) (MS-7676) (all builds)
Memory	6.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120110
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 27 '17 at 20:41
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	0%

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 i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 92.2 1-Core 97.1 2-Core 186 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 351 8-Core 354 47% 353 Pts	64-Core 365 23% 365 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5450 66,079 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Elitegroup(1019 0006) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.18% Terrible	Lighting 1.37 Reflection 2.08 Parallax 1.66 1% 1.7 fps	MRender 1.86 Gravity 0.83 Splatting 2 1% 1.56 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.18% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD220 240GB-$35 12,548 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 188GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0624AA 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 36 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 369 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 28 (A3) Unknown 100 100 287 (A4) Unknown 100 100 1130 (A5) Unknown 100 100 16 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 43036212330525 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 8285 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9921 (F5) Unknown 100 100 6674	45.5% Average	Read 319 Write 179 Mixed 181 50% 227 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 36.7 4K Mixed 10.3 69% 23.7 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 48.7 DQ Mixed 11.4 17% 30.3 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 93%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$128 11,448 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 753GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 178 169 4091 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 952 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9840 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 603 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 219 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 731 (C2) HDA temperature 115 89 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 192 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 191 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 84 52	63.7% Good	Read 118 Write 104 Mixed 84.2 76% 102 MB/s	4K Read 1.07 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.44 123% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 74%
Seagate ST3750528AS 750GB-$65 22,230 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 698GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 74 68224074 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 586 (05) Reallocated sector count 14 14 3546 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 315754032 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 25135 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 586 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 65535 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065686 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 70 57 505217054 (C2) HDA temperature 30 43 64424509470 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 24 68224074 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 89 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 89 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 36236639102980 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3828532979 (F2) Unknown 100 253 807698279	50.1% Above average	Read 124 Write 50.1 Mixed 55.9 57% 76.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.43 102% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 65%
GB0500C8046 500GB 126 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 448GB free Firmware: HPG1 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 63 240371205 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 168 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 11 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 64640725235 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 40149 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 168 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 25770262548 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 31 593193861149 (C2) HDA temperature 29 69 64424509469 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 21 240371205 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 11 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	59.7% Above average	Read 105 Write 103 Mixed 62.5 67% 90.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.38 100% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 60%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$20 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 120GB free Firmware: 18.01H18 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 138 138 4066 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 983 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14466 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 646 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 59 505217054 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 142 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 840 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	74.3% Very good	Read 131 Write 128 Mixed 112 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.25 87% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 69%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 32GB-$8 33,725 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 23GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	17.2% Very poor	Read 31.8 Write 18.1 Mixed 23.2 29% 24.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.03 4K Write 2.43 4K Mixed 1.29 145% 2.92 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17.2% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Elpida EBJ41UF8BDW0-GN-F 2x4GB 1,026 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	35.2% Below average	MC Read 11.4 MC Write 11.7 MC Mixed 10.1 32% 11.1 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 12.1 SC Mixed 11.7 33% 11.6 GB/s	Latency 63.6 63% 63.6 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 35.2% Great: 61%

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Typical Z68MA-G45 (B3) (MS-7676) Builds (Compare 23 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: MSI Z68MA-G45 (B3) (MS-7676)

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	12x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	2x
Core i7-2600Intel $187Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	2x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	5x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	5x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	3x

SSD
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	5x
Ultimate SU800 256GBAdata $54Bench 91%, 40,725 samples	4x
MX100 512GBCrucial $200Bench 88%, 31,545 samples	2x

RAM
9905403-442.A00LF KHX1600C10D3/4G 9905403-442.A00LF KHX1600C10D3/4G 16GBKingstonBench 46%, 30 samples	2x
CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBCorsairBench 48%, 1,087 samples	2x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	1x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $488

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