MSI X79A-GD45 Plus (MS-7760)

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
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	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-7760
Motherboard	MSI X79A-GD45 Plus (MS-7760) (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131220
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Nov 02 '17 at 07:44
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-2670-$53 4,803 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 2.6 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	68.9% Good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 68.2 2-Core 134 61% 98 Pts	4-Core 248 8-Core 450 42% 349 Pts	64-Core 695 43% 695 Pts
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 74%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-$79 71,106 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 793GB free (System drive) Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 78 57 56361445 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 848 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 37439475 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -74487617814159 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1208 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 196 (BC) Unknown 100 99 25770197021 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 63 588644381 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 718 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 886 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 85899345949 (C5) Current pending sector count 88 84 1032 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 88 84 1032 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 10 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 132310762521128 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6266440867 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7218268265 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	40.1% Average	Read 63 Write 76.6 Mixed 43.4 45% 61 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.62 106% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 68%
Samsung HD160JJ/P 160GB-$40 2,028 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 40GB free Firmware: ZM100-34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6336 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6239 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 10869 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15532 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3030 (BE) vendor-specific 136 70 34 (C2) HDA temperature 136 70 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 14347 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 2	27.5% Poor	Read 45.6 Write 49.8 Mixed 49.1 36% 48.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.38 84% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 27.5% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 08G-D3-1866-M 4x4GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	MC Read 36.9 MC Write 32 MC Mixed 30.9 95% 33.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 9.6 SC Mixed 10.2 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 88%

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Typical X79A-GD45 Plus (MS-7760) Builds (Compare 348 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 40%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: MSI X79A-GD45 Plus (MS-7760) - $333

CPU
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	140x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	75x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	45x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	29x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	27x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	25x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $72Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	13x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	11x

RAM
4x4GBAdataBench 68%, 1,028 samples	23x
F3 DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 60%, 1,250 samples	7x
F3 DDR3 2400 C11 8x8GBG.SKILLBench 99%, 23 samples	7x

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