MSI Z77A-G41 (MS-7758)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 85%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

System	MSI MS-7758
Motherboard	MSI Z77A-G41 (MS-7758) (all builds)
Memory	5.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140307
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 08 '18 at 16:19
Run Duration	252 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing way above expectations (91^st 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 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 111 2-Core 220 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 445 8-Core 445 59% 445 Pts	64-Core 437 27% 437 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 124 Parallax 111 93% 116 fps	MRender 99.1 Gravity 105 Splatting 91.7 80% 98.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX900 512GB-$189 1,547 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.8.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 15465817 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 100459285068249 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1221 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 71 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 54 60133081115 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 15465817 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 15465817 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 15465817 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 25769803777 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16165 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14702 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14702 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20601	66.3% Good	Read 516 Write 252 Mixed 306 79% 358 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 19.7 4K Mixed 18.8 77% 22.1 MB/s	DQ Read 218 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 64.5 73% 128 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 69%
WD Red 1TB (2012)-$62 37,583 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 884GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 134 4133 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 151 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 246 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 74 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 132 (C2) HDA temperature 119 95 24 (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	80.5% Excellent	Read 139 Write 142 Mixed 17.5 72% 99.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.36 4K Mixed 0.23 97% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 87%
Wintec Flash Disk 8GB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 7GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.72% Terrible	Read 31.1 Write 7.89 Mixed 8.3 16% 15.8 MB/s	4K Read 6.24 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.007 24% 2.08 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 7.72% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 16,472 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	59.1% Above average	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 20.9 MC Mixed 18.6 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 18.2 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 61.7 65% 61.7 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 63%

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G41 (MS-7758) - $232

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	194x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	119x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	63x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	46x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	36x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	25x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	19x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	17x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	14x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	10x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $606

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