MSI X79A-GD45 Plus (MS-7760)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (9th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 91 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	73.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	10GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 10GB 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.

Very high background CPU (59%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7760
Motherboard	MSI X79A-GD45 Plus (MS-7760) (all builds)
Memory	2.3 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140211
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 04 '19 at 03:37
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	59%

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PC Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel 4960X 8 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Memory 78.8 1-Core 100 2-Core 198 71% 126 Pts	4-Core 326 8-Core 540 53% 433 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060-$269 645,160 User benchmarks, average bench 90% EVGA(3842 2067) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2145 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 441.41 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	73.2% Very good	Lighting 93 Reflection 90.2 Parallax 84.8 76% 89.4 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 79.5 Splatting 68.3 68% 85.6 fps
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 97%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Maxtor 7B300S0 300GB 64 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: BANC1B70 SusWrite @10s intervals: 25 19 17 14 20 25 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	16.4% Very poor	Read 36 Write 40.3 Mixed 19 SusWrite 20 21% 28.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 4.4 4K Mixed 0.2 108% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 16.4% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3-14900CL9-4 Kingston 99U5474-001.A F3-14900CL9-4 Kingston 99U5474-001.A 10GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 1024, 4096, 1024 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51.9% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 18.5 MC Mixed 18.2 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 13 SC Mixed 10.7 34% 11.9 GB/s	Latency 82.8 48% 82.8 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 51.9% Great: 54%

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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 40%

Speed boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI X79A-GD45 Plus (MS-7760) - $333

CPU
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	141x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	75x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	45x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	29x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	27x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	25x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	13x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	11x

RAM
4x4GBAdataBench 68%, 1,028 samples	23x
F3 DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 60%, 1,250 samples	7x
F3 DDR3 2400 C11 8x8GBG.SKILLBench 99%, 23 samples	7x

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