MSI Z68S-G43 (G3) (MS-7750)

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	83.8% 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.

Very high background CPU (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7750
Motherboard	MSI Z68S-G43 (G3) (MS-7750) (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 25 '18 at 22:54
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	54%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500 82,538 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 101 2-Core 200 77% 132 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 398 52% 392 Pts	64-Core 389 24% 389 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 8618) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.3% Good	Lighting 81 Reflection 79.3 Parallax 76.8 66% 79 fps	MRender 72.1 Gravity 74 Splatting 76.2 61% 74.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 460A 240GB-$177 1,086 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 157GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5752 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1154 (AB) Unknown 100 100 77413200 (AE) Unknown 100 100 206 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 96 (D2) Unknown 100 100 1 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 97 97 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7225 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8515 (F9) Unknown 100 100 347294301	83.8% Excellent	Read 513 Write 453 Mixed 486 108% 484 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 60.1 4K Mixed 23.4 96% 35.3 MB/s	DQ Read 185 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 72.8 75% 124 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 71GB free Firmware: CC46 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 117 99 135967672 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2607 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 52334868 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9788 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2057 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 66 58 571998242 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 345 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 53 53 95113 (C2) HDA temperature 34 42 55834574882 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 847 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 45367739551753 (F1) Unknown 100 253 38196183893 (F2) Unknown 100 253 62891267556	49.4% Average	Read 86.4 Write 86.1 Mixed 86.9 65% 86.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.54 4K Mixed 0.24 52% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 112%
WD My Passport 25E1 2TB 20,154 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 590GB free, PID 25e1 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	32% Below average	Read 83.2 Write 84.4 Mixed 64 98% 77.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.07 4K Write 0.49 4K Mixed 0.08 20% 0.21 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 32% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GB 17,012 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	66.5% Good	MC Read 22.9 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 22 67% 23.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 18.6 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 58.4 68% 58.4 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 73%

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Typical Z68S-G43 (G3) (MS-7750) Builds (Compare 43 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 40%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: MSI Z68S-G43 (G3) (MS-7750)

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	14x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	4x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	3x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	5x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	5x
GTX 660Nvidia $170Bench 20%, 123,956 samples	4x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	6x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	3x
Vertex 4 128GBOCZ $215Bench 88%, 19,372 samples	3x

RAM
9905403-440.A00LF 2x4GBKingstonBench 51%, 374 samples	3x
9905471-011.A00LF 9905471-011.A00LF 99U5471-020.A00LF 99U5471-025.A00LF 16GBKingstonBench 50%, 4 samples	3x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 59%, 3,839 samples	2x

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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 $182	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) $30	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