MSI H81M-P33 (MS-7817)

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	79.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	92.6% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7817
Motherboard	MSI H81M-P33 (MS-7817) (all builds)
Memory	8.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150330
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 09 '18 at 14:47
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3-$217 8,137 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	69.1% Good	Memory 80.3 1-Core 91.9 2-Core 178 68% 117 Pts	4-Core 318 8-Core 425 47% 371 Pts	64-Core 490 30% 490 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.6% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 105 Parallax 104 83% 104 fps	MRender 87.4 Gravity 92.8 Splatting 86.1 72% 88.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 401GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 90 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 26 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 51 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1989376044	92.6% Outstanding	Read 488 Write 396 Mixed 414 96% 433 MB/s	4K Read 17.1 4K Write 74 4K Mixed 42.5 120% 44.6 MB/s	DQ Read 276 DQ Write 195 DQ Mixed 103 113% 191 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 851GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 45864168 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 937 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 332714959 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8330 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 932 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 85 85 15 (BE) vendor-specific 66 46 655556642 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2776 (C2) HDA temperature 34 54 55834574882 (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 3457448681585 (F1) Unknown 100 253 84112711137 (F2) Unknown 100 253 864877808063	107% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 182 Mixed 173 137% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.25 88% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G 99U5471-054.A00LF 16GB 185 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	46.8% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 17.3 MC Mixed 15.2 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 9.7 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 12.6 35% 12.4 GB/s	Latency 79.9 50% 79.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 60%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 (MS-7817) - $73

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	895x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	431x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	389x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	368x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	294x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	280x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	193x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	153x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	102x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	119x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	90x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 1x8GBKingstonBench 31%, 37,489 samples	63x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $354

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $40	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