MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) (MS-7760)

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	67.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	40.3% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7760
Motherboard	MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) (MS-7760) (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 0 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141208
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Jun 11 '17 at 00:27
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.4% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 119 2-Core 238 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 473 8-Core 756 76% 615 Pts	64-Core 904 56% 904 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E329) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.5.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	67.3% Good	Lighting 85.8 Reflection 59.1 Parallax 119 70% 87.8 fps	MRender 59.2 Gravity 91.1 Splatting 75.7 62% 75.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ AGILITY3 90GB 1,142 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 6817679 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 74663711483491 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6923 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1671 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6817679 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6817679 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6817679 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10705 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14085 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14085 (F2) Unknown 0 0 24803	40.3% Average	Read 169 Write 85.7 Mixed 90.4 25% 115 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 89.2 4K Mixed 8.48 98% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 23.7 DQ Write 15.8 DQ Mixed 9.94 10% 16.5 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 40.3% Great: 55%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 607GB free Firmware: HP35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 97 142871954 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 18324 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 18 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 8812696706 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13406 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 9310 (B4) Unknown 100 100 417613 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 114 (BC) Unknown 100 98 25770262576 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 52 471138332 (C2) HDA temperature 28 48 42949672988 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 21 142871954 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 18 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	38.2% Below average	Read 68.4 Write 64.7 Mixed 57.5 48% 63.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.35 86% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 326GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4647315 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4746 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 143465509 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8203 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 8137 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 57 64425558503 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 52 471007260 (C2) HDA temperature 28 48 30064771100 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 27 17 4647315 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 163 3256 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 124279173703302 (F1) Unknown 100 253 95383338 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1186455385	47.6% Average	Read 97.3 Write 68.3 Mixed 79.6 62% 81.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.53 118% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 70%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 217GB free Firmware: SM30 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 194134376 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1203 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 33262026 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1677 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1448 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590131209 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 54 471072796 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27731 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 60129542172 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 194 267 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	40% Average	Read 76 Write 62.2 Mixed 79.2 55% 72.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 4.47 4K Mixed 0.66 184% 1.93 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 40% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 2133 C9 4x4GB 84 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72% Very good	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 24.8 MC Mixed 24 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 15.8 SC Mixed 15 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 50.8 79% 50.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 127%

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Typical X79A-GD65 (8D) (MS-7760) Builds (Compare 173 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 28%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 24%

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Motherboard: MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) (MS-7760) - $342

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	47x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	42x
Core i7-3930KIntelBench 77%, 4,060 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	14x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	14x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	7x
240GB 240GBKingmaxBench 72%, 2,389 samples	6x

RAM
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 41%, 1,091 samples	5x
HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GBKingstonBench 80%, 411 samples	5x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	5x

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Value: 52% - Above average

Total price: $920

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