MSI P67A-GD55 (MS-7681)

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 63.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	17.4% 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)
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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

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System	MSI MS-7681
Motherboard	MSI P67A-GD55 (MS-7681) (all builds)
Memory	3.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20110302
Uptime	13.3 Days
Run Date	Oct 21 '17 at 07:30
Run Duration	257 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-2120-$170 77,810 User benchmarks, average bench 51% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.9% Good	Memory 90.3 1-Core 86.6 2-Core 160 68% 112 Pts	4-Core 220 8-Core 220 30% 220 Pts	64-Core 220 14% 220 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 61%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650 Ti Boost-$140 15,701 User benchmarks, average bench 17% EVGA(3842 3657) 2GB CLim: 1202 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 359.0 Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	17.4% Very poor	Lighting 20.7 Reflection 19 Parallax 24.2 17% 21.3 fps	MRender 26.8 Gravity 19.1 Splatting 22.6 19% 22.8 fps
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 17.4% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 21GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd 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 98 98 10095 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1289 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 59 50 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1202283642	53.7% Above average	Read 227 Write 217 Mixed 202 48% 215 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 50.7 4K Mixed 20.3 95% 33 MB/s	DQ Read 33.2 DQ Write 98.3 DQ Mixed 20.5 29% 50.7 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 110%
Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB-$102 29,256 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 33GB free Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 69 225729953 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11500 (05) Reallocated sector count 91 91 396 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 509779977 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25802 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4546 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 65535 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 56 49 6881278427180 (C2) HDA temperature 44 51 55834574892 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 54 19610141 (C5) Current pending sector count 1 1 8910 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 1 1 8910 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	36.5% Below average	Read 66.1 Write 61.1 Mixed 24.5 37% 50.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.38 79% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 43%
Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB-$102 29,256 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 22GB free Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 69 199430528 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11311 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 672402809 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 29683 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4546 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 50 690159655 (C2) HDA temperature 39 50 51539607591 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 64 54 128238926 (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	37.1% Below average	Read 65.2 Write 64.1 Mixed 33.4 40% 54.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.38 88% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 37.1% Great: 43%
WD Blue 320GB (2010)-$40 13,720 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 15GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 139 137 4041 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5602 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21757 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2755 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 116 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5432 (C2) HDA temperature 100 93 43 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 5 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	48% Average	Read 72.3 Write 94.6 Mixed 71.4 60% 79.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.31 87% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 65%
WD WD740GD-00FLA2 74GB 1,363 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: 33.08F33 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 112 111 4900 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4833 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 37566 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4803 (C2) HDA temperature 112 94 38 (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 200 253 9 (C8) Write error rate 200 179 0	32.6% Below average	Read 54.3 Write 58.9 Mixed 52.7 42% 55.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.51 121% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 32.6% Great: 39%
WD WD25 00JS-58NCB1 250GB 17,984 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 5GB free Firmware: 10.02E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 185 5616 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18800 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 50 50 36973 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4792 (BE) vendor-specific 58 43 42 (C2) HDA temperature 108 93 42 (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	30% Poor	Read 46.2 Write 57.8 Mixed 36 35% 46.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.47 102% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 30% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB 308 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	51.6% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 16.5 50% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 15.7 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 62%

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Gaming 40%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: MSI P67A-GD55 (MS-7681)

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	137x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	56x
Core i7-2600Intel $194Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	32x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	21x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	11x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	10x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	8x

RAM
CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBCorsairBench 49%, 308 samples	9x
CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 16GBCorsairBench 50%, 118 samples	5x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 54%, 12,350 samples	5x

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Total price: $391

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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