MSI 990FXA-GD65 (MS-7640)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 37% Jet ski	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 30% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	53% 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	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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7640
Motherboard	MSI 990FXA-GD65 (MS-7640) (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130923
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	May 11 '18 at 16:21
Run Duration	216 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.2% Very good	Memory 93.1 1-Core 76.9 2-Core 150 65% 107 Pts	4-Core 278 8-Core 483 46% 381 Pts	64-Core 474 29% 474 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 780-$329 50,279 User benchmarks, average bench 45% Nvidia(10DE 104B) 3GB CLim: 1367 MHz, MLim: 1777 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	53% Above average	Lighting 64.4 Reflection 57.2 Parallax 74.8 52% 65.5 fps	MRender 77.7 Gravity 69.8 Splatting 55.4 54% 67.6 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 49%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD WD4000YR-01PLB0 400GB-$140 232 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 213GB free Firmware: 01.06A01 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 244 218 4808 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3022 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 25 25 55157 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1055 (C2) HDA temperature 103 95 49 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	32.9% Below average	Read 51.6 Write 62.6 Mixed 48.8 41% 54.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.42 101% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 32.9% Great: 35%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 145GB free (System drive) Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 103776275 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6099 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 538052350 (09) Power-on hours count 50 50 44240 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 6041 (B7) Unknown 75 75 25 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 64425559540 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 64 53 622854180 (C2) HDA temperature 36 47 34359738404 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 27 103776275 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 8 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -132714489387408 (F1) Unknown 100 253 485303259 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2530763603	49.6% Average	Read 84.1 Write 88.8 Mixed 79.9 63% 84.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.42 91% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 70%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$90 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 48GB free Firmware: 12.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3251 (03) Spinup time 168 156 4600 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12405 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 18 18 59987 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8837 (C0) Power-off retract count 194 194 4569 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12683 (C2) HDA temperature 109 98 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 199 25 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 199 25 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 13158 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 9	32.4% Below average	Read 63.5 Write 49.1 Mixed 47.2 40% 53.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.35 89% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 32.4% Great: 58%
Maxtor STM3250310AS 250GB 13,068 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 46GB free Firmware: 4.AAA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2785 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 178520026 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19663 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3029 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 56 50 839647276 (C2) HDA temperature 44 50 51539607596 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 67 60 169913469 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 184 173 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	36.7% Below average	Read 57.1 Write 70.6 Mixed 66.3 49% 64.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.22 65% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 36.7% Great: 53%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 14GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 180779845 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7780 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 43763944 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 42109 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 6141 (B7) Unknown 87 87 13 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 30065360906 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 52 639762469 (C2) HDA temperature 37 48 47244640293 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 18 180779845 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 165 10974 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 115448720975410 (F1) Unknown 100 253 759069231 (F2) Unknown 100 253 829234130	46.4% Average	Read 73.6 Write 87.9 Mixed 71.7 58% 77.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.31 75% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 46.4% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Apacer 78.BAGEJ.9LK0C Kingston 99U5584-005.A00LF Transcend JM1600KLN-4G 12GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 800, 800, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	42.5% Average	MC Read 16.2 MC Write 13.7 MC Mixed 13.8 42% 14.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.9 SC Write 7.7 SC Mixed 11.9 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 62 64% 62 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 42%

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Gaming 36%

Jet ski

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: MSI 990FXA-GD65 (MS-7640) - $300

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	69x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	26x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	22x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	10x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	9x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	8x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	7x
870 EVO 500GBSamsung $62Bench 104%, 60,851 samples	5x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	4x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	8x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	7x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	6x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $627

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $256	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $48	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16