MSI X79A-GD45 (MS-7735)

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 79.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	13.1% 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	48.8% 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, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7735
Motherboard	MSI X79A-GD45 (MS-7735) (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141208
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 16 '17 at 05:26
Run Duration	89 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	79.9% Very good	Memory 89.4 1-Core 100 2-Core 199 75% 129 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 572 59% 476 Pts	64-Core 700 43% 700 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% XFX(1682 3117) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	13.1% Very poor	Lighting 17.3 Reflection 13.5 Parallax 14.5 14% 15.1 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 11.5 Splatting 17.2 11% 13.4 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.1% Great: 13%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 14317162 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 115611929675306 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 464 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 17 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 14317162 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 14317162 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 14317162 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1909 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1361 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1361 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2975	48.8% Average	Read 263 Write 124 Mixed 185 42% 191 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 45 4K Mixed 17.4 80% 28.4 MB/s	DQ Read 157 DQ Write 140 DQ Mixed 51.1 65% 116 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 82%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1600LL Series 4x4GB 369 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	MC Read 35.7 MC Write 33.7 MC Mixed 31.4 96% 33.6 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 13.8 SC Mixed 13.2 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 67.9 59% 67.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 90%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 44%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 38%

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Motherboard: MSI X79A-GD45 (MS-7735)

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	40x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	17x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	11x

GPU
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	8x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	6x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	5x

SSD
SSD 256GBPcieBench 152%, 15,792 samples	5x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	5x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	4x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	6x
Vengeance LP DDR3 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 447 samples	6x
HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GBKingstonBench 80%, 411 samples	5x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $399

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $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