MSI P67A-GD65 (MS-7681)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 75.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	33.1% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7681
Motherboard	MSI P67A-GD65 (MS-7681) (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 09 '17 at 21:34
Run Duration	353 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd 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 4.2 GHz, turbo 5.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	75.5% Very good	Memory 83.6 1-Core 109 2-Core 211 76% 134 Pts	4-Core 389 8-Core 395 52% 392 Pts	64-Core 398 25% 398 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gainward(10B0 13C2) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.28 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 43% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Scst_fio vg0i0 599GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 182GB free Firmware: 221 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	23.1% Poor	Read 81.8 Write 107 Mixed 92.2 21% 93.8 MB/s	4K Read 10.4 4K Write 10.1 4K Mixed 9.72 34% 10.1 MB/s	DQ Read 67 DQ Write 62.1 DQ Mixed 35.6 35% 54.9 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 23.1% Great: 24%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 77GB free Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 20 100 532 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 629 (A6) Unknown 100 100 358 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 408 (A9) Unknown 100 100 44 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 385 (AE) Unknown 100 100 47 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 53 100 313532612655 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 12 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 91863 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1690 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2895	61.8% Good	Read 387 Write 396 Mixed 245 76% 343 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 49.5 4K Mixed 5.5 70% 26.5 MB/s	DQ Read 26.1 DQ Write 91.3 DQ Mixed 9.13 21% 42.2 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 86%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 77GB free Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 28 100 540 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 629 (A6) Unknown 100 100 371 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1 (A8) Unknown 100 100 423 (A9) Unknown 100 100 35 (AA) Unknown 100 100 2 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 401 (AE) Unknown 100 100 47 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 8 (C2) HDA temperature 55 100 313532612653 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 13 (E8) Unknown 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 95592 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1690 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2903	63.6% Good	Read 414 Write 398 Mixed 336 85% 383 MB/s	4K Read 24.1 4K Write 52.1 4K Mixed 5.26 71% 27.1 MB/s	DQ Read 49.5 DQ Write 89.3 DQ Mixed 4.44 22% 47.7 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 86%
Scst_fio vg0i3 239GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 29GB free Firmware: 221 Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	21.5% Poor	Read 82.1 Write 97.3 Mixed 87.9 20% 89.1 MB/s	4K Read 10.2 4K Write 10.2 4K Mixed 8.6 32% 9.65 MB/s	DQ Read 49.8 DQ Write 61 DQ Mixed 5.34 18% 38.7 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 21.5% Great: 23%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 18GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.13 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 92 92 14284323 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 78073915528702 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2176 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 84 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 14284323 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 14284323 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 14284323 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25227 (EA) Unknown 0 0 26050 (F1) Unknown 0 0 26050 (F2) Unknown 0 0 38886	33.1% Below average	Read 156 Write 76.7 Mixed 73.8 22% 102 MB/s	4K Read 15.1 4K Write 65.3 4K Mixed 8.82 69% 29.7 MB/s	DQ Read 24.5 DQ Write 89.4 DQ Mixed 6.82 20% 40.2 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 33.1% Great: 61%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 23GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8113 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1629 (E8) Unknown 100 100 12831733964 (E9) Unknown 99 0 99	71.4% Very good	Read 372 Write 382 Mixed 319 80% 358 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 72.9 4K Mixed 20 103% 39.6 MB/s	DQ Read 28.5 DQ Write 89.5 DQ Mixed 18.9 26% 45.7 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 104%
Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 2TB-$249 29,211 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 790GB free Firmware: MN6OA580 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 86 (03) Spinup time 135 135 34387591592 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4670 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 133 133 27 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 13273 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2285 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4752 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4752 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 249108824100 (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	52.4% Above average	Read 74.6 Write 108 Mixed 75.6 64% 86 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.31 85% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 52.4% Great: 85%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 411GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 143190416 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5510 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8734120 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4245 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 752 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 47 588709923 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16376 (C2) HDA temperature 35 53 51539607587 (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 8778913153535 (F1) Unknown 100 253 26253471855 (F2) Unknown 100 253 109983891610	56.3% Above average	Read 98.7 Write 97.5 Mixed 69.7 66% 88.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.17 72% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 59GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 78167870 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2209 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19264985 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15477 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2210 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 25770983465 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 65 38 752207986723 (C2) HDA temperature 35 62 38654705699 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 21 78167870 (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 -7481833010571 (F1) Unknown 100 253 610466595 (F2) Unknown 100 253 666432389	39.8% Below average	Read 66.9 Write 71.5 Mixed 50.5 47% 63 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.46 104% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 39.8% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1333 C9 4x4GB 1,941 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	48.1% Average	MC Read 15.3 MC Write 17.9 MC Mixed 15.5 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.8 SC Write 17.8 SC Mixed 16.2 45% 15.6 GB/s	Latency 74.1 54% 74.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 54%

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Desktop 76%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: MSI P67A-GD65 (MS-7681)

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	155x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	153x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	50x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	44x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	41x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	40x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	22x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	17x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	15x

RAM
CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBCorsairBench 48%, 1,087 samples	15x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	7x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	6x

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Total price: $555

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) $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