MSI 970A-G43 (MS-7693)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 3% Tree trunk	Desktop 30% Sail boat	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 26.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	9.67% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	14GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 14GB 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	7.7 GB free of 14 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130328
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 27 '18 at 15:06
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	TUR-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	26.7% Poor	Memory 21 1-Core 54.6 2-Core 99.1 31% 58.2 Pts	4-Core 196 8-Core 138 24% 167 Pts	64-Core 139 9% 139 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 26.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 250 25,802 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Asus(1043 04BD) 2GB CLim: 1182 MHz, MLim: 1087 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 18.2.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	9.67% Terrible	Lighting 12.3 Reflection 13.3 Parallax 15.3 10% 13.6 fps	MRender 9.76 Gravity 11.3 Splatting 11.5 9% 10.9 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.67% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3320613AS 320GB-$30 12,971 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 244GB free (System drive) Firmware: SD22 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 119766569 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8169 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 443937500 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15097 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 179 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7470 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 549764202715 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 868 (BE) vendor-specific 60 51 740753448 (C2) HDA temperature 40 49 30064771112 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 25 119766569 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 187 17821	50.3% Above average	Read 83.2 Write 92.2 Mixed 30 50% 68.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.37 74% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 65%
Seagate ST500DL001 HD503HI 500GB 725 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 283GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 85 83 4606 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4593 (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 4595 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 4029 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 16 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 53 201864118307 (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 100 100 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 165 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 5294	59.4% Above average	Read 98.6 Write 108 Mixed 57.8 65% 88.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 2.94 4K Mixed 0.44 125% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX 9905471-017.A00LF KHX1600C9D3/4GX Nanya M2F2G64CB88B7N-CG 14GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 800, 667, 800, 667 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	31.1% Below average	MC Read 13.6 MC Write 12.7 MC Mixed 12 36% 12.8 GB/s	SC Read 3.4 SC Write 2.8 SC Mixed 2.6 8% 2.93 GB/s	Latency 313 13% 313 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 31.1% Great: 31%

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Workstation 16%

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

CPU
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	221x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	99x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $45	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