MSI Z68MA-G45 (B3) (MS-7676)

Performance Results


Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 54% Yacht	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 60.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	1.17% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	49% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7676
Motherboard	MSI Z68MA-G45 (B3) (MS-7676) (all builds)
Memory	6.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 1200 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120110
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 05 '17 at 03:56
Run Duration	222 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	60.7% Good	Memory 48 1-Core 105 2-Core 210 64% 121 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 429 57% 425 Pts	64-Core 422 26% 422 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5450 66,079 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Elitegroup(1019 0006) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.17% Terrible	Lighting 1.37 Reflection 2 Parallax 1.66 1% 1.67 fps	MRender 1.86 Gravity 0.83 Splatting 1.91 1% 1.53 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.17% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD220 240GB-$33 12,548 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 187GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0624AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^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 39 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 398 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 28 (A3) Unknown 100 100 287 (A4) Unknown 100 100 1236 (A5) Unknown 100 100 18 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 40 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 39724758663194 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9456 (F2) Unknown 100 100 13023 (F5) Unknown 100 100 7300	49% Average	Read 334 Write 195 Mixed 168 51% 232 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 38.6 4K Mixed 10.4 78% 25.9 MB/s	DQ Read 29.5 DQ Write 44.5 DQ Mixed 10.2 15% 28.1 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 93%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 3TB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 158 158 25794380127 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 17 (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 100 100 16 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 17 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 141735428126 (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	108% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 183 Mixed 134 127% 170 MB/s	4K Read 1.19 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.19 112% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 107%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$128 11,448 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 367GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 179 169 4041 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 991 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9873 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 632 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 230 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 759 (C2) HDA temperature 117 89 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 192 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 191 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 84 31	54.6% Above average	Read 90.2 Write 99.5 Mixed 68.6 64% 86.1 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.43 135% 1.25 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 74%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 119GB free Firmware: 18.01H18 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 139 138 4050 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1021 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14500 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 675 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 59 471531548 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 153 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 867 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	54.5% Above average	Read 96 Write 93.7 Mixed 70 65% 86.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.34 90% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 69%
GB0500C4413 500GB 496 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 80GB free Firmware: HPG3 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 96 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 44 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 89 60 885092631 (09) Power-on hours count 27 27 64028 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 32 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 48 555745312 (C2) HDA temperature 32 52 81604378656 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 72 52 192122112 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2	28.8% Poor	Read 50.8 Write 49.1 Mixed 32.8 33% 44.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.27 80% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Elpida EBJ41UF8BDW0-GN-F EBJ41UF8BDW0-GN-F 8GB 78 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 18.9 61% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 7.5 SC Mixed 7.5 22% 7.83 GB/s	Latency 168 24% 168 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 52%

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Typical Z68MA-G45 (B3) (MS-7676) Builds (Compare 23 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: MSI Z68MA-G45 (B3) (MS-7676)

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	12x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	2x
Core i7-2600Intel $204Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	2x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	5x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	5x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	3x

SSD
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	5x
Ultimate SU800 256GBAdata $68Bench 91%, 40,725 samples	4x
MX100 512GBCrucial $200Bench 88%, 31,545 samples	2x

RAM
9905403-442.A00LF KHX1600C10D3/4G 9905403-442.A00LF KHX1600C10D3/4G 16GBKingstonBench 46%, 30 samples	2x
CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBCorsairBench 48%, 1,087 samples	2x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	1x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $488

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	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