MSI 990FXA-GD65 (MS-7640)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 36% Jet ski	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 69.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	52.7% 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)
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 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-7640
Motherboard	MSI 990FXA-GD65 (MS-7640) (all builds)
Memory	4.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150601
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '17 at 16:05
Run Duration	233 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 4.6 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Memory 91.5 1-Core 76.4 2-Core 141 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 265 8-Core 348 39% 307 Pts	64-Core 351 22% 351 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2978) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	52.7% Above average	Lighting 65.5 Reflection 71.6 Parallax 62.4 53% 66.5 fps	MRender 72.6 Gravity 62.9 Splatting 55.8 51% 63.8 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 143GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1091 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 486 (B1) Unknown 99 99 28 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 59 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 7 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10119982202
Poor: 71% Great: 124%
Seagate ST500LM012 HN-M500MBB 500GB 47,588 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 312GB free Firmware: 2AR20003 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3512 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14383 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5856 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 86 86 14331 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 46 236223791133 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1525 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 14435	54.3% Above average	Read 95.1 Write 93.9 Mixed 77.5 67% 88.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.37 92% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 59%
Seagate Desktop HDD 1TB (2013) 2,070 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 243GB free Firmware: CC92 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 89 84533976 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8728 (05) Reallocated sector count 1 1 9453 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 37264318 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9357 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2598 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1330 (BC) Unknown 100 97 240522690728 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 68 37 32161270857760 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 498 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9605 (C2) HDA temperature 32 63 60129542176 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 115 99 84533976 (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 69548405433254 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1158211256 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3675415201	47.5% Average	Read 88.7 Write 76.7 Mixed 63.5 57% 76.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.36 86% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 71%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 24GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 191637294 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17831 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 101045592 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8595 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2549 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 70 50 505217054 (C2) HDA temperature 30 50 34359738398 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 56 53 191637294 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	36.8% Below average	Read 63.7 Write 64.3 Mixed 65.3 49% 64.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.46 101% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 60%
Seagate Desktop HDD 1TB (2013) 2,070 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 10GB free Firmware: CC92 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 84 155609536 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9532 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 42389636 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9478 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3764 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 10259 (BC) Unknown 100 90 257701969986 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 33 34274361081887 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 925 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6753 (C2) HDA temperature 31 67 60129542175 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 117 99 155609536 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 162 5512 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -122389388057380 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2882995920 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2407209795	52.2% Above average	Read 92.6 Write 89.1 Mixed 105 72% 95.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.24 86% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 71%
SanDisk Ultra 32GB 7,719 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 15GB free, PID 5590 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	41.3% Average	Read 136 Write 58.4 Mixed 80.7 104% 91.5 MB/s	4K Read 5.8 4K Write 2.47 4K Mixed 1.43 154% 3.24 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C11 2x4GB 2,380 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1067 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	45.7% Average	MC Read 19.3 MC Write 13.6 MC Mixed 15.6 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 8.4 SC Mixed 11.4 28% 9.8 GB/s	Latency 64.9 62% 64.9 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 79%

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Typical 990FXA-GD65 (MS-7640) Builds (Compare 177 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 36%

Jet ski

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 29%

Raft

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

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	69x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 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 $60Bench 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 $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