MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758)

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 84.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.9% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7758
Motherboard	MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758) (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	20140307
Uptime	4.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 18 '18 at 20:45
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2700K-$89 20,692 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 118 2-Core 234 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 413 8-Core 602 63% 508 Pts	64-Core 606 38% 606 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290X-$549 37,353 User benchmarks, average bench 51% XFX(1682 9395) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1100 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.12.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.9% Good	Lighting 79.1 Reflection 66.7 Parallax 96.4 64% 80.7 fps	MRender 66 Gravity 65.3 Splatting 83.4 60% 71.6 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 500GB-$49 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 158GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st 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 100 100 577 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2728 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 42 (A3) Unknown 100 100 49 (A4) Unknown 100 100 14986 (A5) Unknown 100 100 76 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 43 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 6978 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 152900 (F2) Unknown 100 100 474375 (F5) Unknown 100 100 239776	105% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 431 Mixed 471 106% 476 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 35.7 149% 58.5 MB/s	DQ Read 262 DQ Write 291 DQ Mixed 24 88% 192 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 108%
Transcend SSD370 128GB-$74 4,687 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1114B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^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 100 100 654 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2121 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 43 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 63706 (A5) Unknown 100 100 114 (A6) Unknown 100 100 11 (A7) Unknown 100 100 62 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 7 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 63 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 695 (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 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 127568 (F2) Unknown 100 100 187023 (F5) Unknown 100 100 254824	74.9% Very good	Read 504 Write 150 Mixed 169 60% 274 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 32.5 140% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 30.1 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 20.6 30% 53.7 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 83%
Samsung HD502HJ 500GB-$50 72,924 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 384GB 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 2 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 82 81 5515 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3473 (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 13845 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4455 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 61 167504511005 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 2 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 5142	78% Very good	Read 135 Write 137 Mixed 115 96% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 2.52 4K Mixed 0.39 112% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 77%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 219GB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 103 99 144 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3696 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 17183709062 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26650 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3579 (B7) Unknown 97 97 3 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 17180131349 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 49 504954910 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1573 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3447 (C2) HDA temperature 30 51 55834574878 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 7 3 144 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 194 419 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -14989435847733 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2090022060 (F2) Unknown 100 253 810938670	41.3% Average	Read 78.9 Write 65 Mixed 93.7 60% 79.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 0.86 4K Mixed 0.44 85% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 127GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 98446048 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6232 (05) Reallocated sector count 95 95 239 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 20053658 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14462 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5685 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 51540656146 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 51 488046621 (C2) HDA temperature 29 49 47244640285 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 19 98446048 (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 92865782900927 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2759472124 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2987909927	42.1% Average	Read 77.5 Write 69.2 Mixed 69.9 54% 72.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.33 88% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 68%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$35 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 55GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 33 (03) Spinup time 142 141 3883 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2703 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8305 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2690 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1165 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1537 (C2) HDA temperature 113 103 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 196 196 340 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 196 192 332 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 199 197 345	53.5% Above average	Read 97.5 Write 88.9 Mixed 90.7 70% 92.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.24 84% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B1G73DB0-CK0 1x8GB 12,268 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	33.2% Below average	MC Read 11.3 MC Write 9.8 MC Mixed 9.6 29% 10.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.9 SC Write 11.9 SC Mixed 10.6 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 33.2% Great: 34%

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Desktop 76%

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Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758)

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	478x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	343x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	248x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	141x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	135x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	124x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	60x
MX500 500GBCrucial $48Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	54x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	48x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	42x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 47,852 samples	35x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $280

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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