MSI A88X-G45 GAMING (MS-7900)

Performance Results


Gaming 32% Sail boat	Desktop 62% Destroyer	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 51.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	58.7% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	48.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (43%). 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, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7900
Motherboard	MSI A88X-G45 GAMING (MS-7900) (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160727
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 07 '17 at 17:49
Run Duration	222 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing as expected (44^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD A10-7850K APU (2014 D.Ka)-$135 19,875 User benchmarks, average bench 45% P0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	51.2% Above average	Memory 69.1 1-Core 67.6 2-Core 120 52% 85.5 Pts	4-Core 195 8-Core 194 26% 194 Pts	64-Core 201 12% 201 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 54%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% MSI(1462 2015) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 16.12.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	58.7% Above average	Lighting 72.6 Reflection 64.1 Parallax 96.4 59% 77.7 fps	MRender 62 Gravity 63.7 Splatting 81.3 58% 69 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin ECO2 240GB-$109 340 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 36GB free Firmware: 603A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3327852 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 -109212428398045 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 26 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 16 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 32 39 1009319870496 (C2) HDA temperature 32 39 1009319870496 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3327852 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3327852 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3327852 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 17179869185 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4582 (EA) Unknown 0 0 98 (F1) Unknown 0 0 98 (F2) Unknown 0 0 113	65.3% Good	Read 362 Write 226 Mixed 218 59% 269 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 84.3 4K Mixed 17.5 105% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 66.7 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 44.2 61% 108 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 83%
Mushkin ECO2 120GB-$70 304 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 7717578 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 -9225589737163 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 255 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 129 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 33 41 60132229153 (C2) HDA temperature 33 41 60132229153 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7717578 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7717578 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7717578 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 81 81 34359738369 (E9) Unknown 0 0 64825 (EA) Unknown 0 0 18262 (F1) Unknown 0 0 18262 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6971	48.2% Average	Read 424 Write 88.4 Mixed 69.2 42% 194 MB/s	4K Read 13.3 4K Write 82.7 4K Mixed 10.1 77% 35.4 MB/s	DQ Read 64.7 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 20.4 34% 63.3 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 75%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$60 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 97828008 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1684 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 26250340 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15103 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 310 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 65 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 28452 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 60129542172 (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 -9169755166767 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22141318917 (F2) Unknown 100 253 574513389775	70.2% Very good	Read 138 Write 107 Mixed 102 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.17 62% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 96%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$45 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 234GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 117542632 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 215 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11414546 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10182 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 121 (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 74 68 454688794 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 53 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 280 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 55834574874 (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 18854906439427 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8716688781 (F2) Unknown 100 253 202626846083	82% Excellent	Read 147 Write 138 Mixed 136 106% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 5.41 4K Mixed 0.71 206% 2.26 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	37.4% Below average	MC Read 16.2 MC Write 9.3 MC Mixed 15.4 39% 13.6 GB/s	SC Read 7.4 SC Write 7.6 SC Mixed 9.1 23% 8.03 GB/s	Latency 104 39% 104 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 37.4% Great: 86%

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Desktop 48%

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Workstation 5%

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Motherboard: MSI A88X-G45 GAMING (MS-7900) - $119

CPU
A10-7850K APU (2014 D.Ka)AMD $135Bench 45%, 19,875 samples	31x
A10-6800K APU (2013 D.Ri)AMD $467Bench 51%, 11,295 samples	18x
A10-7870K APU (2014 D.Ka)AMD $135Bench 46%, 9,821 samples	11x

GPU
Radeon R7 GraphicsAMDBench 6%, 25,284 samples	13x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	9x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	7x

SSD
S280 480GBKingdianBench 84%, 2,297 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	4x
SSD Plus 120GBSanDisk $42Bench 58%, 87,912 samples	3x

RAM
M378B1G73QH0-CK0 1x8GBSamsungBench 29%, 7,106 samples	6x
F3-12800CL9-4GBXL F3-12800CL9-4GBXL F3-12800CL9-4GBXL F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 16GBUnknownBench 51%, 517 samples	5x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 49%, 26,466 samples	3x

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Value: 55% - Above average

Total price: $254

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16