MSI B85-G43 GAMING (MS-7816)

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7816
Motherboard	MSI B85-G43 GAMING (MS-7816) (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150410
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Apr 29 '17 at 02:25
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670-$52 49,019 User benchmarks, average bench 66% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.6% Very good	Memory 92.4 1-Core 103 2-Core 207 78% 134 Pts	4-Core 387 8-Core 391 52% 389 Pts	64-Core 395 24% 395 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	64.8% Good	Lighting 82.8 Reflection 84.3 Parallax 75 68% 80.7 fps	MRender 79.5 Gravity 74.6 Splatting 67.3 60% 73.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: 525ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 17202069968 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 101301098654215 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1485 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 129 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 56 1013615951902 (C2) HDA temperature 30 56 1013615951902 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 102 102 17202069968 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 102 102 17202069968 (CC) Soft ECC correction 102 102 17202069968 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16797 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14375 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14375 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14868	77.1% Very good	Read 502 Write 206 Mixed 273 72% 327 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 95.6 4K Mixed 19.5 121% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 198 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 55.1 83% 155 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 73GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 1830928 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5062 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 20891091 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9820 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1426 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 53 215236149275 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 90 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 43246 (C2) HDA temperature 27 47 -140737488355301 (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 93102006079230 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13495538285 (F2) Unknown 100 253 18660607871	55.9% Above average	Read 97.5 Write 97 Mixed 94.2 72% 96.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.3 109% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 112%
WD Blue 250GB (2007)-$20 41,230 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 32GB free Firmware: 01.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 175 2158 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10394 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 33767 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4366 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 332 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4366 (C2) HDA temperature 117 75 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4373 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	47% Average	Read 84.6 Write 79 Mixed 66.1 57% 76.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.33 93% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 55%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/4G KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/4G KHX1600C9D3/4GX 16GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	60.8% Good	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 18.1 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 19.9 53% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 63.4 63% 63.4 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 61%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 73%

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Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: MSI B85-G43 GAMING (MS-7816) - $90

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	292x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	244x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	221x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	235x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	149x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	141x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	74x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	56x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	54x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	70x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	45x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBKingstonBench 52%, 19,522 samples	31x

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Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $584

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) $35	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