MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, SSD, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Graphics	16.7% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7918
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) (all builds)
Memory	4.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 05 '15 at 16:35
Run Duration	372 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 108 2-Core 209 72% 159 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 400 56% 414 Pts	64-Core 402 25% 402 Pts
Poor: 53% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 5,537 User benchmarks, average bench 16% Nvidia(10DE 079F) 1.2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 9.18.13.4752 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	16.7% Very poor	Lighting 19.4 Reflection 29.8 Parallax 22.9 16% 24.1 fps	MRender 30.9 Gravity 14.9 Splatting 22 18% 22.6 fps
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 16.7% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3640323AS 640GB-$174 2,758 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 563GB free Firmware: SD13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 163912420 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6120 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 10 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 163362021 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 45272 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 23 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2514 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 120260919328 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 299 (BE) vendor-specific 61 51 656670759 (C2) HDA temperature 39 49 51539607591 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 26 163912420 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 197 47635	61.1% Good	Read 105 Write 108 Mixed 69.3 70% 94.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.46 111% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 66%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$78 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 691GB free Firmware: CC98 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 60653760 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 197 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10869066 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1945 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 122 (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 64 62 623050788 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 199 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 68719476772 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 12 60653760 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 610 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -100068443027433 (F1) Unknown 100 253 687107032 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3166991850	55.7% Above average	Read 96.6 Write 97.6 Mixed 76 67% 90.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.17 58% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 138GB free Firmware: 3.AAK Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 89 107704887 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6349 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 825603226204 (09) Power-on hours count 39 39 53703 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3321 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 47 673316904 (C2) HDA temperature 40 53 60129542184 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 60 48 164988888 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 179 3376 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	37.5% Below average	Read 65.8 Write 64.4 Mixed 45.7 44% 58.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.37 97% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 37.5% Great: 43%
Samsung HD160JJ 160GB-$85 5,008 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 137GB free Firmware: ZM100-41 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5696 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2804 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17214 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2120 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 106 85 44 (C2) HDA temperature 106 85 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 24816 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1	29.6% Poor	Read 53.6 Write 49.1 Mixed 49.7 38% 50.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.37 90% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 29.6% Great: 33%
WD WD360ADFD-00NLR5 37GB 173 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 9GB free (System drive) Firmware: 20.07P20 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 185 0 (03) Spinup time 167 164 2666 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3548 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 23 23 56758 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3472 (C2) HDA temperature 99 94 44 (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 200 253 50297 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	34.5% Below average	Read 51.7 Write 68.2 Mixed 52.3 43% 57.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.51 117% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 34.5% Great: 48%
pqi IntelligentStick 2GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 0GB free, PID 0060 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	5.28% Terrible	Read 18.2 Write 5.11 Mixed 7.24 11% 10.2 MB/s	4K Read 6.22 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 24% 2.09 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.28% Great: 7%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	848x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	617x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	309x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	441x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	206x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	175x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	67x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	153x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	99x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	48x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918)

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PC Performing as expected (57th percentile)

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