MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) (MS-7681)

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 81.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	76.1% 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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7681
Motherboard	MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) (MS-7681) (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120517
Uptime	3.9 Days
Run Date	Nov 10 '17 at 16:32
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2700K-$89 20,692 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 108 2-Core 207 79% 136 Pts	4-Core 375 8-Core 541 57% 458 Pts	64-Core 543 34% 543 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.2% 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 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 151 Parallax 129 116% 141 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 138 Splatting 111 99% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5912 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 871 (B1) Unknown 96 96 81 (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 66 31 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 9 (EB) Unknown 99 99 47 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16120322174	76.1% Very good	Read 512 Write 410 Mixed 412 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 51.5 4K Mixed 18.5 97% 33.4 MB/s	DQ Read 33.2 DQ Write 57.7 DQ Mixed 97.3 59% 62.7 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 888GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 188797060 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 392 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 120995883 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -54271206749112 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 393 (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 55 454033435 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 47 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 24396 (C2) HDA temperature 27 45 55834574875 (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 130713034688410 (F1) Unknown 100 253 31637333474 (F2) Unknown 100 253 26088933617	64.7% Good	Read 93.1 Write 133 Mixed 101 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.27 81% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 105%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 525GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (03) Spinup time 72 72 9200 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 10754 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19499 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4384 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 32 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 84 48 269025296 (C2) HDA temperature 76 47 403243032 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 36651 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 99 1122 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	56.6% Above average	Read 95.5 Write 101 Mixed 92.5 73% 96.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.44 102% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1333 C7 4x4GB 782 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	47.7% Average	MC Read 16 MC Write 16.6 MC Mixed 14.8 45% 15.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 17.5 SC Mixed 15.2 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 62.1 64% 62.1 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 54%

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Gaming 38%

Jet ski

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) (MS-7681)

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	63x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	41x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	16x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	21x
HD 3000 (Desktop V1 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 8,807 samples	11x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	10x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	11x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	10x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	10x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 50%, 23,732 samples	5x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $599

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