MSI A78M-E45 (MS-7721)

Performance Results


Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 18% Surfboard


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 a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 57.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	38.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	63.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 (57%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7721
Motherboard	MSI A78M-E45 (MS-7721) (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141215
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 06 '17 at 11:19
Run Duration	209 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	57%

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 Athlon II X4 860K-$51 29,887 User benchmarks, average bench 45% P0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.1 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	57.6% Above average	Memory 77.6 1-Core 73.2 2-Core 140 58% 96.8 Pts	4-Core 221 8-Core 215 29% 218 Pts	64-Core 216 13% 216 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 54%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 3969) CLim: 1594 MHz, MLim: 1765 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	38.7% Below average	Lighting 50.9 Reflection 47.5 Parallax 46 42% 48.1 fps	MRender 39.1 Gravity 43.8 Splatting 39 33% 40.7 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 360GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR021 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^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 1736 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 479 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 79 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 57 184684576798 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 5846137284 (F7) Unknown 100 100 183348093 (F8) Unknown 100 100 70732333 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1912 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	63.5% Good	Read 460 Write 279 Mixed 327 79% 355 MB/s	4K Read 18.9 4K Write 46.4 4K Mixed 20.1 79% 28.5 MB/s	DQ Read 89.5 DQ Write 87.1 DQ Mixed 38.4 42% 71.6 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 99%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$36 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 42GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8593615908 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -59416577567541 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1533 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 206 (B1) Unknown 0 0 94 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 46 68722491418 (C2) HDA temperature 26 46 68722491418 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 98 98 8593615908 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 98 98 8593615908 (CC) Soft ECC correction 98 98 8593615908 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 17179869184 (E9) Unknown 0 0 24643 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19666 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19666 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11901 (F4) Unknown 94 94 196673725	53.9% Above average	Read 510 Write 113 Mixed 133 54% 252 MB/s	4K Read 14 4K Write 71.5 4K Mixed 13.2 76% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 78.1 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 31.6 42% 74.8 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 73%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$72 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 379GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 121 109 6950 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4565 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12616 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1679 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 169 169 93472 (C2) HDA temperature 119 97 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	40.3% Average	Read 71.2 Write 69 Mixed 75.8 54% 72 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.25 74% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.3% Great: 57%
Seagate ST3250824A 250GB 149 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 125GB free Firmware: 3.AAD Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 96 211114055 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6324 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 13188546192 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13642 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4417 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 47 471597084 (C2) HDA temperature 28 53 42949672988 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 81 48 141844590 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	28% Poor	Read 53.2 Write 44.2 Mixed 46.3 36% 47.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.39 85% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 28% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CL9.9-9 D3-1600 CL9.9-9 D3-1600 16GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	29.3% Poor	MC Read 11.1 MC Write 8.6 MC Mixed 9.2 28% 9.63 GB/s	SC Read 8 SC Write 7.3 SC Mixed 10.4 24% 8.57 GB/s	Latency 85.1 47% 85.1 ns
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 29.3% Great: 36%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: MSI A78M-E45 (MS-7721) - $89

CPU
Athlon II X4 860KAMD $51Bench 45%, 29,887 samples	11x
Athlon II X4 760K (2013 D.Ri)AMD $59Bench 51%, 6,408 samples	9x
A8-7600 APU (2014 D.Ka)AMDBench 42%, 31,243 samples	8x

GPU
Radeon R7 GraphicsAMDBench 5%, 22,117 samples	6x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	6x
HD 6870AMDBench 15%, 25,443 samples	4x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	4x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $159Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	3x
WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GBWDCBench 93%, 97,462 samples	3x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	3x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 50%, 27,024 samples	2x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	2x

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Value: 33% - Below average

Total price: $240

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16