MSI Z77A-GD65 (MS-7751)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (32nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 68 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 82.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	50.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7751
Motherboard	MSI Z77A-GD65 (MS-7751) (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120921
Uptime	5.9 Days
Run Date	Sep 15 '17 at 08:52
Run Duration	302 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	Memory 85.2 1-Core 116 2-Core 235 81% 145 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 465 62% 464 Pts	64-Core 463 29% 463 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 79%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16070 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2381 (B1) Unknown 83 83 600 (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 72 60 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 202 (F1) Unknown 99 99 61480121039	50.5% Above average	Read 498 Write 219 Mixed 264 72% 327 MB/s	4K Read 15.1 4K Write 37.5 4K Mixed 9.48 55% 20.7 MB/s	DQ Read 17.3 DQ Write 35.5 DQ Mixed 9.91 12% 20.9 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 76%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 3GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4006 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 575 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12898402477 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 19 (A8) Unknown 100 100 16 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 12 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 43 184684838942 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 352204095744 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2585 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3585 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2867 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5932 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	58% Above average	Read 333 Write 259 Mixed 244 62% 279 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 34 4K Mixed 14.5 69% 23.2 MB/s	DQ Read 242 DQ Write 142 DQ Mixed 10.9 57% 132 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 108%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$64 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 20 (03) Spinup time 167 165 6608 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8184 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22054 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5399 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1578 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8169 (C2) HDA temperature 122 101 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	34.8% Below average	Read 65.4 Write 55.2 Mixed 65.7 47% 62.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.33 97% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 34.8% Great: 57%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 280GB free Firmware: CC98 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 119155480 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4242 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 47130368 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12398 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2235 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 54 504692766 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 184 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4606 (C2) HDA temperature 30 46 60129542174 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 3 119155480 (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 83425444771127 (F1) Unknown 100 253 254887142 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1643427905	43.4% Average	Read 84 Write 67.4 Mixed 84.4 60% 78.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 0.73 4K Mixed 0.15 42% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 75%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$76 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 239GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 177 5933 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4445 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11471 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1745 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 145 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4299 (C2) HDA temperature 122 113 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	49.9% Average	Read 77.9 Write 95.7 Mixed 82.4 64% 85.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.16 64% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX 029E CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 KHX1600C9D3/4GX 029E CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 208 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	52% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.8 MC Mixed 16.3 50% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 16.9 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 62%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 49%

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Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD65 (MS-7751) - $250

CPU
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	240x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	160x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	76x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	53x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	41x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	29x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	19x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	19x

RAM
CT102464BD160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 53%, 4,052 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	15x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	14x

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Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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