MSI ZH77A-G43 (MS-7758)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 69%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	23.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7758
Motherboard	MSI ZH77A-G43 (MS-7758) (all builds)
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131029
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 21 '17 at 04:04
Run Duration	363 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing below expectations (38^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 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	69% Good	Memory 81.9 1-Core 100 2-Core 188 71% 123 Pts	4-Core 304 8-Core 475 48% 389 Pts	64-Core 497 31% 497 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 76%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)-$15 52,547 User benchmarks, average bench 3% MSI(1462 2111) 2.2GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.10.4358 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3230) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1774 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.28 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	23.8% Poor	Lighting 27.1 Reflection 29.5 Parallax 21.8 22% 26.1 fps	MRender 43 Gravity 25.6 Splatting 32.1 27% 33.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 23.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 193GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6061 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 455 (B1) Unknown 96 96 81 (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 64 53 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 62707418886
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Seagate Backup+ Hub BK 8TB 16,705 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 5TB free Firmware: D781 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	65.1% Good	Read 114 Write 111 Mixed 85.2 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 6.52 4K Mixed 0.63 221% 2.62 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 92%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 5TB 5,792 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2TB free Firmware: 040B Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	59.2% Above average	Read 139 Write 66.6 Mixed 67 67% 90.7 MB/s	4K Read 1.25 4K Write 4.38 4K Mixed 0.5 189% 2.04 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 88%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$60 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 581GB free Firmware: CC52 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 112 99 47204312 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2944 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 52337194 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18141 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2117 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 44 44 56 (BE) vendor-specific 69 65 4816568351 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 8 8 184644 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 -140737488355297 (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 -97023311202231 (F1) Unknown 100 253 92121627160 (F2) Unknown 100 253 33624356680	53.1% Above average	Read 99.2 Write 86 Mixed 119 77% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.11 46% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 96%
WD Black 4TB (2012)-$323 4,113 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 402GB free Firmware: 01.01L01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 199 0 (03) Spinup time 156 154 11200 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1345 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13555 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1340 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1300 (C2) HDA temperature 120 110 32 (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 1839 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	62.2% Good	Read 109 Write 107 Mixed 102 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2.81 4K Mixed 0.41 116% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 93%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 334GB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 188839960 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5524 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 85818223 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 20002 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3058 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 69 58 521666591 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 507 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 43779 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 55834574879 (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 -94764158404281 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -136856601355580 (F2) Unknown 100 253 92037690787118	96.9% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 171 Mixed 127 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.32 92% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 34GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 61756625 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3637 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 158562722 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19619 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2199 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 25 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 47 488046621 (C2) HDA temperature 29 53 51539607581 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 16 61756625 (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 25774098770919 (F1) Unknown 100 253 351857983 (F2) Unknown 100 253 542212728	43% Average	Read 81.7 Write 67.9 Mixed 76.3 57% 75.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.49 116% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 70%
LINK 32GB 32GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 29GB free, PID 101a Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	12.2% Very poor	Read 38.2 Write 19.2 Mixed 8.23 23% 21.9 MB/s	4K Read 6.19 4K Write 0.31 4K Mixed 0.05 35% 2.18 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 12.2% Great: 23%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	53.5% Above average	MC Read 19.6 MC Write 19.2 MC Mixed 17.3 53% 18.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 16.5 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 77.2 52% 77.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 76%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: MSI ZH77A-G43 (MS-7758)

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	81x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	33x
Core i5-3470Intel $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples	32x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	25x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	22x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	16x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	16x
HFM256GDJTNI-82A0A 256GBBench 134%, 2,723 samples	12x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
Samsung M378B1G73QH0-CK0 16GBUnknownBench 48%, 137 samples	10x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	6x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	6x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $465

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16