MSI X79A-GD45 (8D) (MS-7760)

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	104% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	84.6% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7760
Motherboard	MSI X79A-GD45 (8D) (MS-7760) (all builds)
Memory	57.6 GB free of 64 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130403
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 13 '18 at 00:25
Run Duration	306 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing below expectations (38^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 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	73% Very good	Memory 74.9 1-Core 99.3 2-Core 196 70% 124 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 577 60% 480 Pts	64-Core 753 47% 753 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 147 Parallax 135 110% 139 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 131 Splatting 107 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Pro 2TB-$474 2,198 User benchmarks, average bench 111% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: RVM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 39 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 41 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 71 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1695536936	84.6% Excellent	Read 495 Write 482 Mixed 508 111% 495 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 33.3 4K Mixed 34.8 96% 30.2 MB/s	DQ Read 114 DQ Write 81 DQ Mixed 49.1 50% 81.5 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 131%
Seagate Backup+ Hub BK 8TB 16,705 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 7.5TB free Firmware: D781 Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	18.4% Very poor	Read 33.9 Write 28.7 Mixed 29.4 23% 30.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 4.31 4K Mixed 0.69 202% 2.03 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 18.4% Great: 92%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 8TB 825 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 7TB free Firmware: 040B Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	67.3% Good	Read 104 Write 128 Mixed 76.8 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 7.94 4K Mixed 0.82 297% 3.39 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 89%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 239589640 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1378 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 57446701 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5749 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1345 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 64425492495 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 59 437714969 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6053 (C2) HDA temperature 25 41 77309411353 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 135 2024 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -23892903061814 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16064269791 (F2) Unknown 100 253 495641925181	70.9% Very good	Read 99.8 Write 146 Mixed 88.8 83% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 4.59 4K Mixed 0.57 170% 1.9 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 94%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 79777152 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1411 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 41343277 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5723 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1357 (B7) Unknown 97 97 3 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 56 420937753 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5353 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 77309411353 (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 -112158775961976 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11905954194 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1489833536770	65.4% Good	Read 87.6 Write 139 Mixed 110 85% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 4.36 4K Mixed 0.63 178% 1.88 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 105887504 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 534 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13554174 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2233 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 503 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 76 56 404029464 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 24391 (C2) HDA temperature 24 44 64424509464 (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 -84812719192943 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6184982553 (F2) Unknown 100 253 66315349723	91.8% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 153 Mixed 144 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.17 61% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 114%
Patriot Memory 248GB 260 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 221GB free, PID 6000 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	8.56% Terrible	Read 35.5 Write 10.7 Mixed 33.7 32% 26.6 MB/s	4K Read 2.82 4K Write 0.14 4K Mixed 0.7 39% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 8.56% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1333 C9 8x8GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 8 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	MC Read 33.6 MC Write 31.5 MC Mixed 30.1 91% 31.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 12.8 SC Mixed 12.1 36% 12.5 GB/s	Latency 90.5 44% 90.5 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 82%

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Gaming 60%

Destroyer

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: MSI X79A-GD45 (8D) (MS-7760)

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	118x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	41x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	26x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	23x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	16x

SSD
128GB 128GBSSDBench 65%, 7,332 samples	16x
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBWD $74Bench 228%, 180,890 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
99U5471-012.A 99U5471-020.A 9905471-006.A 9905471-006.A 16GBKingstonBench 86%, 17 samples	13x
F3 DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 65%, 473 samples	10x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	5x

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Value: 143% - Outstanding

Total price: $132

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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