MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) (MS-7681)

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


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 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 85.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	29.7% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

System	MSI MS-7681
Motherboard	MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) (MS-7681) (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '17 at 19:57
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	4%

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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
Intel Core i7-3770K-$175 165,979 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 5.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Memory 88.6 1-Core 123 2-Core 239 84% 150 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 600 67% 527 Pts	64-Core 616 38% 616 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.9% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 112 Parallax 93.6 84% 103 fps	MRender 95.9 Gravity 94.8 Splatting 94.6 78% 95.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 60GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1923 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1914 (B1) Unknown 99 99 25 (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 65 53 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 398 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4791879054	32.3% Below average	Read 264 Write 110 Mixed 147 38% 174 MB/s	4K Read 13.6 4K Write 23.3 4K Mixed 10.5 46% 15.8 MB/s	DQ Read 17 DQ Write 32.7 DQ Mixed 8.63 11% 19.5 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 32.3% Great: 86%
Intenso 128GB 128GB 1,805 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: O0213E Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (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 100 100 438 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2056 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 245 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1 (A3) Unknown 100 100 170 (A4) Unknown 100 100 344091 (A5) Unknown 100 100 105 (A6) Unknown 100 100 53 (A7) Unknown 100 100 87 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 197 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (F1) Unknown 100 100 143929 (F2) Unknown 100 100 188702	29.7% Poor	Read 271 Write 113 Mixed 141 38% 175 MB/s	4K Read 13.6 4K Write 29.2 4K Mixed 2.18 39% 15 MB/s	DQ Read 13.9 DQ Write 45.1 DQ Mixed 2.17 10% 20.4 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 29.7% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 390GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 98 98194099 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8523 (05) Reallocated sector count 57 57 1789 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 30278027568 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14677 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4270 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BC) Unknown 100 93 4222017930223 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 123 (BE) vendor-specific 67 51 555089953 (C2) HDA temperature 33 49 34359738401 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 19 98194099 (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 -83923660937970 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1289436063 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1534915588	54.2% Above average	Read 101 Write 87.3 Mixed 93.1 71% 94 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.25 69% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 17GB free Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 85 88573190 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7318 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 30 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 439570587 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8941 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7751 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 135 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 47 672596008 (C2) HDA temperature 40 53 42949673000 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 60 51 14933801 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	25.3% Poor	Read 40.3 Write 47.7 Mixed 42 33% 43.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.31 74% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 25.3% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 10,150 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	56.6% Above average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 19.7 MC Mixed 17.1 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 19.2 54% 18.8 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 63%

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Typical Z68A-GD65 (G3) (MS-7681) Builds (Compare 165 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 38%

Jet ski

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) (MS-7681)

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	63x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	41x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	16x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	21x
HD 3000 (Desktop V1 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 8,807 samples	11x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	10x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	11x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	10x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	10x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 50%, 23,732 samples	5x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $599

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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