MSI Z68A-GD65 (MS-7681)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 79.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	27.5% 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	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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

System	MSI MS-7681
Motherboard	MSI Z68A-GD65 (MS-7681) (all builds)
Memory	6.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20110531
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 03 '18 at 11:09
Run Duration	82 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$188 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.5% Very good	Memory 92.8 1-Core 96.9 2-Core 190 74% 127 Pts	4-Core 366 8-Core 472 54% 419 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7870-$203 42,130 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Sapphire(174B E217) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 14.501.1003.0 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	27.5% Poor	Lighting 34 Reflection 32.2 Parallax 42.6 28% 36.3 fps	MRender 28.2 Gravity 31.6 Splatting 37.5 27% 32.4 fps
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 27.5% Great: 28%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$25 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 442GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 169663053 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 73 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 89 60 937834542 (09) Power-on hours count 37 37 55960 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 73 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 137441050656 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 554893345 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 60129542177 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 47 20 169663053 (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 -1056561898683 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2732449249 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4237430284	66.5% Good	Read 105 Write 127 Mixed 76 76% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.48 107% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya M2F2G64CB88B7N-CG M2F2G64CB88B7N-CG Hynix HMT325U6CFR8C-H9 Hynix HMT325U6CFR8C-H9 8GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49.8% Average	MC Read 17 MC Write 17.5 MC Mixed 15.3 47% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 16.8 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 49.8% Great: 50%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: MSI Z68A-GD65 (MS-7681)

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	25x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	19x
Core i7-2600Intel $188Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	2x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	6x
HD 3000 (Desktop V2 1.35 GHz)Intel $15Bench 2%, 6,831 samples	5x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	5x

SSD
SSD Plus 240GBSanDisk $32Bench 61%, 133,640 samples	6x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	3x

RAM
CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 16GBCorsairBench 50%, 118 samples	5x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	4x
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 60%, 5,448 samples	2x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $551

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