MSI 970A-G43 PLUS (MS-7974)

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 57% Gunboat	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 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. 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 53.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	7.75% 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	64.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

System	MSI MS-7974
Motherboard	MSI 970A-G43 PLUS (MS-7974) (all builds)
Memory	5.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160704
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Dec 28 '17 at 21:40
Run Duration	247 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-4300-$73 55,454 User benchmarks, average bench 52% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	53.6% Above average	Memory 83.1 1-Core 62.5 2-Core 113 55% 86.3 Pts	4-Core 144 8-Core 143 19% 143 Pts	64-Core 144 9% 144 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R7 250 5,461 User benchmarks, average bench 9% XFX(1682 7250) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	7.75% Terrible	Lighting 9.8 Reflection 10.6 Parallax 13.3 8% 11.2 fps	MRender 7.52 Gravity 9.17 Splatting 9.65 7% 8.78 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 7.75% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8739 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 836 (B1) Unknown 88 88 57 (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 67 38 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 97 97 2312 (EB) Unknown 99 99 207 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28797897950	64.1% Good	Read 446 Write 251 Mixed 164 63% 287 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 32.8 4K Mixed 18.8 89% 27.7 MB/s	DQ Read 145 DQ Write 54.7 DQ Mixed 35.7 43% 78.3 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 123%
ACSC2M128mSA 127GB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 75GB free Firmware: P0316B 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 121 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 877 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 71 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1 (A3) Unknown 100 100 1 (A4) Unknown 100 100 44455 (A5) Unknown 100 100 69 (A6) Unknown 100 100 18 (A7) Unknown 100 100 43 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 283 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 124138 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 31 (F1) Unknown 100 100 53158 (F2) Unknown 100 100 55516 (F5) Unknown 100 100 154303	37% Below average	Read 323 Write 162 Mixed 78 41% 188 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 16.6 4K Mixed 3.16 42% 13 MB/s	DQ Read 94.9 DQ Write 18.3 DQ Mixed 12.6 21% 42 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 37% Great: 58%
Hitachi HUA722020ALA331 2TB 22,636 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 452GB free Firmware: JKAOA3NH Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 65536 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 106 (03) Spinup time 114 114 51580895866 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 376 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 119 119 36 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 50594 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 369 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 387 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 387 (C2) HDA temperature 130 130 249109217326 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	51% Above average	Read 91.5 Write 86.4 Mixed 12.9 46% 63.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.37 89% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 68%
Toshiba P300 1TB-$67 318,836 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 282GB free Firmware: MS2OA8J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 70 (03) Spinup time 125 125 12896829625 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 196 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 115 115 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2773 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 188 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 221 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 221 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 188979609632 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	71.2% Very good	Read 132 Write 116 Mixed 5.41 61% 84.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.18 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.14 44% 0.48 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 107%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 204GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 5 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 69 69 9538 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7786 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 35524 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3360 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 57 188979413022 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 86 86 7903 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 18202 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 8130	78.3% Very good	Read 129 Write 144 Mixed 84.7 88% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 0.52 135% 1.29 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 75%
Seagate Expansion Desk 2TB 307 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 371GB free, PID 3322 Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	50% Above average	Read 142 Write 116 Mixed 87.1 140% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.15 52% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Elpida Kingston 8GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 800, 800 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	40.1% Average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 11.7 MC Mixed 14.1 41% 14.2 GB/s	SC Read 7.9 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 9.8 24% 8.57 GB/s	Latency 75.1 53% 75.1 ns
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 55%

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Gaming 33%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 25%

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Motherboard: MSI 970A-G43 PLUS (MS-7974)

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	56x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	46x
FX-8300AMD $168Bench 58%, 49,767 samples	31x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	15x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	13x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	10x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	14x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	5x
MX500 500GBCrucial $46Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	5x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	13x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 21,220 samples	5x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	5x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $205

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