MSI P67A-GD65 (MS-7681)

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	14.5% 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	27% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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-7681
Motherboard	MSI P67A-GD65 (MS-7681) (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110302
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Aug 11 '17 at 01:10
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Memory 95.3 1-Core 110 2-Core 217 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 423 56% 420 Pts	64-Core 424 26% 424 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5830 2,946 User benchmarks, average bench 13% Sapphire(174B E177) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	14.5% Very poor	Lighting 19.6 Reflection 13.4 Parallax 18.4 16% 17.1 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 15.1 Splatting 15.4 12% 14 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 14.5% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force 3 60GB 4,789 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 8717557 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -131331509947212 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2810 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 964 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8717557 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8717557 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8717557 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 19392 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13415 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13415 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10411	27% Poor	Read 178 Write 53.1 Mixed 86.1 23% 106 MB/s	4K Read 13 4K Write 31.6 4K Mixed 8.67 48% 17.8 MB/s	DQ Read 66.2 DQ Write 53.9 DQ Mixed 17.3 25% 45.8 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 27% Great: 52%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 270GB 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 1 (03) Spinup time 175 173 2241 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1353 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11246 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1314 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1353 (C2) HDA temperature 110 105 33 (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	57.3% Above average	Read 105 Write 94.7 Mixed 95.1 74% 98.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.33 96% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 56300744 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2895 (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 5976 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5906094 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 28500 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2742 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 60 571998242 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 893 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 34848 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 64424509474 (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 -137327284297772 (F1) Unknown 100 253 90711211376015 (F2) Unknown 100 253 26622241608722	60.9% Good	Read 104 Write 109 Mixed 102 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 0.97 4K Mixed 0.28 67% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ4GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ4GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ4GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ4GX3M2A1600C9 8GB 30 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	61.2% Good	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 22.5 MC Mixed 19.5 60% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 19.2 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 56 71% 56 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 64%

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 76%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: MSI P67A-GD65 (MS-7681)

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	155x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	153x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	50x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	44x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	41x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	40x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	17x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	15x

RAM
CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBCorsairBench 48%, 1,087 samples	15x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	7x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	6x

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Value: 56% - Above average

Total price: $555

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