MSI A88XM GAMING (MS-7903)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 65% Battle cruiser	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 59.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	19.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (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	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.

System	MSI MS-7903
Motherboard	MSI A88XM GAMING (MS-7903) (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160818
Uptime	3.3 Days
Run Date	Sep 28 '17 at 22:23
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	TTO-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD A10-7850K APU (2014 D.Ka)-$135 19,875 User benchmarks, average bench 45% P0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	59.8% Above average	Memory 79.5 1-Core 74.9 2-Core 133 58% 95.7 Pts	4-Core 234 8-Core 234 31% 234 Pts	64-Core 229 14% 229 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 54%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 560-$500 60,738 User benchmarks, average bench 22% Sapphire(1DA2 E348) ≥ 4GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.659.0 Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	19.7% Very poor	Lighting 20.3 Reflection 28.3 Parallax 35.3 16% 28 fps	MRender 29.6 Gravity 29 Splatting 34.9 26% 31.1 fps
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 19.7% Great: 25%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 838GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 140 3900 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2535 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 27952 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1816 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 391 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 127 127 219577 (C2) HDA temperature 109 95 34 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	74% Very good	Read 133 Write 124 Mixed 121 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 0.23 95% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 658GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 63 191478972 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 98 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7654010 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 752 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 92 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 54 672792611 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 115 (C2) HDA temperature 35 26 111669149731 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 191478972 (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 2813203579627 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2954194088 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1453814750	97.1% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 170 Mixed 136 118% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.3 99% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 113%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 346GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 5995 (03) Spinup time 142 140 3875 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3392 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 33454 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2277 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 447 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 127 127 219673 (C2) HDA temperature 109 96 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	68.7% Good	Read 113 Write 126 Mixed 103 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.22 86% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 85%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 239GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 136 134 4200 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3333 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 30828 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2091 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 378 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 120 120 242152 (C2) HDA temperature 110 95 33 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	49.5% Average	Read 89.8 Write 82.4 Mixed 98 68% 90 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.19 72% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown AG34G2130U1S AG34G2130U1S AG34G2130U1S AG34G2130U1S 16GB 2134, 2134, 2134, 2134 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	44.2% Average	MC Read 19.5 MC Write 9.3 MC Mixed 18.7 45% 15.8 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 12.4 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 81.5 49% 81.5 ns

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Gaming 7%

Tree trunk

Desktop 47%

Yacht

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: MSI A88XM GAMING (MS-7903) - $121

CPU
A10-7850K APU (2014 D.Ka)AMD $135Bench 45%, 19,875 samples	12x
Athlon II X4 760K (2013 D.Ri)AMD $59Bench 51%, 6,408 samples	7x
A10-7870K APU (2014 D.Ka)AMD $135Bench 46%, 9,821 samples	7x

GPU
Radeon R7 GraphicsAMDBench 6%, 25,284 samples	8x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	4x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	3x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	3x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	2x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	2x

RAM
AG38G2130U2 AG38G2130U2 16GBUnknownBench 42%, 5 samples	3x
HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 2x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 9,036 samples	2x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x4GBKingstonBench 51%, 3,851 samples	2x

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Value: 45% - Average

Total price: $294

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