MSI H81M-E33 (MS-7817)

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 56% Gunboat	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 55.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	2.27% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	53.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 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 (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7817
Motherboard	MSI H81M-E33 (MS-7817) (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150421
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 29 '16 at 22:59
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Pentium G3258-$31 23,497 User benchmarks, average bench 53% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	55.2% Above average	Memory 83.9 1-Core 85 2-Core 129 62% 99.3 Pts	4-Core 156 8-Core 161 21% 158 Pts	64-Core 137 8% 137 Pts
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD Graphics (G4 Pentium/Celeron 1.05/1.15 GHz) 43,454 User benchmarks, average bench 2% MSI(1462 7817) 2GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.10.4358 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	2.27% Terrible	Lighting 2.73 Reflection 3.58 Parallax 2.97 2% 3.09 fps	MRender 3.38 Gravity 1.17 Splatting 3.74 2% 2.76 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 2.27% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 5GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 85362645 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -99694780872911 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 38 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 12 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 36 64426868764 (C2) HDA temperature 28 36 64426868764 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 85362645 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 85362645 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 85362645 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 60129542144 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1111 (EA) Unknown 0 0 901 (F1) Unknown 0 0 901 (F2) Unknown 0 0 690 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1835014	53.8% Above average	Read 417 Write 113 Mixed 172 51% 234 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 93.3 4K Mixed 3.3 97% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 53.9 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 28.5 38% 66.4 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 73%
Toshiba X300 5TB-$125 12,743 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8703 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 12 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 25 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 12 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 12 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 210454773801 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 25 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 208 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	92.7% Outstanding	Read 160 Write 162 Mixed 147 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 3.66 4K Write 2.25 4K Mixed 0.34 232% 2.08 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 109%
Seagate ST1000VN000-1HJ162 1TB 281 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 17068056 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 27 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 429931 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 114 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 22 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032835 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 70 67 505085982 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 27 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 77309411358 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 44% Great: 99%
Seagate ST1000VN000-1HJ162 1TB 281 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 100 182916992 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 25 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 286620 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 169 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 68 505085982 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 25 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 73014444062 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 44% Great: 99%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-052.A00LF 1x8GB 3,331 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	19.5% Very poor	MC Read 4.5 MC Write 6 MC Mixed 5.6 15% 5.37 GB/s	SC Read 6.3 SC Write 7.7 SC Mixed 7 20% 7 GB/s	Latency 73.6 54% 73.6 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 19.5% Great: 30%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 60%

Gunboat

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: MSI H81M-E33 (MS-7817) - $98

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	402x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	301x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	177x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	343x
HD 4400 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 64,721 samples	235x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	191x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	159x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	77x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	77x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	70x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	67x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	56x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $336

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16