MSI 970A-G43 (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 27% Raft	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 27.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	1.67% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	15.3% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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 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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970A-G43 (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150410
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 09 '18 at 23:48
Run Duration	608 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X2 555 4,836 User benchmarks, average bench 45% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	27.7% Poor	Memory 47.3 1-Core 19 2-Core 35.6 24% 34 Pts	4-Core 47.2 8-Core 57.6 7% 52.4 Pts	64-Core 70.4 4% 70.4 Pts
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 27.7% Great: 52%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 430 22,369 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Device(0000 0000) 1GB CLim: 700 MHz, MLim: 267 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	1.67% Terrible	Lighting 1.57 Reflection 2.42 Parallax 1.31 1% 1.77 fps	MRender 2.52 Gravity 3.5 Splatting 2.91 2% 2.98 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 1.67% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung PM800 2.5" 128GB 1,159 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: VBM25D1Q Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 10028 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2565 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 96 96 188 (B2) Unknown 40 40 36 (B3) Unknown 94 94 203 (B4) Unknown 94 94 3637 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (E8) Unknown 40 40 24 (E9) Unknown 70 70 1278181655	15.3% Very poor	Read 153 Write 36.6 Mixed 78.2 19% 89.3 MB/s	4K Read 10.6 4K Write 6.62 4K Mixed 3.51 24% 6.92 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 15.3% Great: 32%
Hitachi HUA721010KLA330 1TB-$39 10,651 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 930GB free Firmware: GKAOA90A Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 130 130 150 (03) Spinup time 147 147 55870488980 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 117 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 132 132 33 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 34047 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 90 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 121 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 121 (C2) HDA temperature 130 130 300648890414 (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	45.4% Average	Read 80.1 Write 78 Mixed 29.1 46% 62.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.44 112% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 46%
Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 750GB-$52 41,501 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 599GB free Firmware: JE4OA60B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 189 189 73014444033 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 4436 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 1953 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 4277 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 68 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 73609 (C2) HDA temperature 150 150 197568954408 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	46.5% Average	Read 84 Write 78.1 Mixed 18.3 44% 60.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.11 46% 0.48 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 53%
Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 320GB 4,752 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 113GB free Firmware: V54OA52A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 125 125 25788940596 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 980 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 34807 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 807 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2391 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2391 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 257698365481 (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 200 253 2	29.6% Poor	Read 54.2 Write 48.8 Mixed 21.4 30% 41.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.3 83% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 29.6% Great: 40%
Samsung HD161HJ 160GB-$40 22,667 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 59GB free Firmware: JF100-19 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 4736 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3214 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21226 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1936 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 39726 (B8) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 65536 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 136 79 889323554 (C2) HDA temperature 133 76 906100771 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 39726 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	41.6% Average	Read 72.9 Write 72.1 Mixed 62.8 52% 69.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.35 77% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-055.A00LF I9E5403-02X.A00LF 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 800, 800 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	21.3% Poor	MC Read 8.9 MC Write 6.4 MC Mixed 8.6 23% 7.97 GB/s	SC Read 3 SC Write 2.7 SC Mixed 4.3 10% 3.33 GB/s	Latency 171 23% 171 ns
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 21.3% Great: 21%

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Desktop 64%

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Workstation 16%

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Motherboard: MSI 970A-G43 (MS-7693) - $72

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	222x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	100x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	77x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	53x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	28x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	28x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	21x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	15x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	13x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 47,852 samples	14x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	12x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16