MSI Z77A-G45 (MS-7752)

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 45% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 78.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	66.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	65% 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 (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7752
Motherboard	MSI Z77A-G45 (MS-7752) (all builds)
Memory	8.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit färger, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130929
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 02 '17 at 01:04
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	78.9% Very good	Memory 94.6 1-Core 103 2-Core 207 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 361 8-Core 392 50% 376 Pts	64-Core 395 24% 395 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 79%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)-$15 52,547 User benchmarks, average bench 3% MSI(1462 2111) 2GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.10.4425 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	2.22% Terrible	Lighting 2.4 Reflection 3.15 Parallax 1.62 2% 2.39 fps	MRender 3.71 Gravity 1.33 Splatting 4.52 3% 3.19 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 2.22% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	66.5% Good	Lighting 87.6 Reflection 84.2 Parallax 81.7 71% 84.5 fps	MRender 67.3 Gravity 75.4 Splatting 66.9 57% 69.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR060 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5411 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 55 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 94 94 100 (AE) Unknown 100 100 32 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 49 219044446243 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 94 94 6 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 45212153085 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1415798136 (F8) Unknown 100 100 800546127 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1940 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	65% Good	Read 479 Write 329 Mixed 311 83% 373 MB/s	4K Read 15.8 4K Write 54.4 4K Mixed 11.3 67% 27.2 MB/s	DQ Read 149 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 7.5 41% 93.3 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 99%
ST3000DM001-1CH166 256GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 18GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12251 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 120 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 66 66 1029 (AE) Unknown 100 100 66 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 52 206159413282 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 66 66 34 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 53496693241 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1717890332 (F8) Unknown 100 100 4954981	96.9% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 477 Mixed 493 111% 496 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 90.1 4K Mixed 32.2 125% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 212 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 68.7 87% 156 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 97%
Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB-$140 10,635 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 459GB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 4520 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 117 (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 77 77 9407 (0A) Spinup retry count 102 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 51 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 152 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 190 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 236224512042 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 77 77 9359 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 551 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	71.9% Very good	Read 113 Write 138 Mixed 137 98% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.11 71% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 104%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 320GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 67 (03) Spinup time 138 138 21502755219 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1732 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 14982 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 63 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1753 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1753 (C2) HDA temperature 150 150 214749806632 (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 200 200 0	87.4% Excellent	Read 158 Write 147 Mixed 110 103% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.15 85% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	79.3% Very good	MC Read 29.2 MC Write 31.2 MC Mixed 26.1 82% 28.8 GB/s	SC Read 19 SC Write 18.5 SC Mixed 20.3 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 58.1 69% 58.1 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 85%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G45 (MS-7752)

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	529x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	225x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	166x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	102x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	97x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	63x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	43x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	40x
840 120GBSamsung $109Bench 61%, 51,792 samples	38x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	29x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	28x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	27x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $328

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $44	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16