MSI Z68MA-ED55 (MS-7676)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 40% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	73.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Very high background CPU (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7676
Motherboard	MSI Z68MA-ED55 (MS-7676) (all builds)
Memory	18.4 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130109
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 07 '17 at 21:21
Run Duration	208 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	38%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	73.7% Very good	Memory 86.7 1-Core 93.3 2-Core 183 71% 121 Pts	4-Core 352 8-Core 354 47% 353 Pts	64-Core 354 22% 354 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	73.7% Very good	Lighting 94.7 Reflection 98.5 Parallax 88.7 77% 94 fps	MRender 85.7 Gravity 89.6 Splatting 73 67% 82.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 148GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4833 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4402 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 67 59 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 24 (EB) Unknown 99 99 110 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3497491365
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 3.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 100 253 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2 (C2) HDA temperature 121 114 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	82.6% Excellent	Read 148 Write 140 Mixed 144 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.19 94% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 100%
Toshiba X300 5TB-$125 12,743 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: FP2A 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 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8603 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 663 (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 99 99 513 (0A) Spinup retry count 113 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 663 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 77 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 665 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 197569609763 (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 99 99 512 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 213 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	63.4% Good	Read 122 Write 99.8 Mixed 97.3 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.1 42% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 109%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$75 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 849GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 238072864 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2020 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 9480456 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1334 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2063 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 193276477486 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 67 59 555352097 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4169 (C2) HDA temperature 33 41 73014444065 (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 99162204932771 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4489269879 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14780362322	62.8% Good	Read 91.2 Write 127 Mixed 93.9 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 3.6 4K Mixed 0.34 120% 1.44 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 108%
ASMT 2105 512GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 192% 267GB free, PID 0322 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	169% Outstanding	Read 303 Write 272 Mixed 274 360% 283 MB/s	4K Read 14.2 4K Write 20.4 4K Mixed 8.01 1,018% 14.2 MB/s	DQ Read 19.1 DQ Write 20.6 DQ Mixed 7.7 1,034% 15.8 MB/s
Poor: 156% ↑ This bench: 169% Great: 209%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL8-4GBXM 04CD F3-1600C9-8GXM 04CD F3-12800CL8-4GBXM 04CD F3-1600C9-8GXM 24GB 18 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	50.5% Above average	MC Read 17 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 16.1 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 16.4 SC Mixed 16.2 44% 15.6 GB/s	Latency 70.7 56% 70.7 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 64%

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Typical Z68MA-ED55 (MS-7676) Builds (Compare 39 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 19%

Surfboard

Motherboard: MSI Z68MA-ED55 (MS-7676)

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	9x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	7x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	6x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	7x
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	6x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	4x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	3x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	3x
Agility 3 120GBOCZ $102Bench 49%, 38,562 samples	2x

RAM
CMX8GX3M2B1600C9 830B M2F4G64CB88D7N-DI 029E CMX8GX3M2B1600C9 830B M2F4G64CB88D7N-DI 16GBUnknownBench 46%, 7 samples	3x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 1x8GBKingstonBench 31%, 37,489 samples	2x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	2x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $385

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 $46

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