MSI Z97-G43 (MS-7816)

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	113% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	86.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7816
Motherboard	MSI Z97-G43 (MS-7816) (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160218
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 13 '16 at 12:01
Run Duration	204 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 95 1-Core 132 2-Core 259 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 435 8-Core 686 69% 560 Pts	64-Core 683 42% 683 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7570 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 150 Reflection 161 Parallax 137 123% 149 fps	MRender 121 Gravity 145 Splatting 114 103% 127 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 189GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2419 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1053 (B1) Unknown 98 98 30 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 90 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15216654281	86.1% Excellent	Read 514 Write 244 Mixed 304 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 90.2 4K Mixed 31 136% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 194 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 85.9 102% 175 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 124%
Mushkin Chronos 120GB-$70 862 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 24GB free Firmware: 609ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 106661217834709 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 782 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 577 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 25 46 30067785753 (C2) HDA temperature 25 46 30067785753 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 66 66 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8048 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6565 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6565 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5568	71.1% Very good	Read 373 Write 225 Mixed 259 63% 285 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 94.1 4K Mixed 18.2 114% 46.4 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 72.3 92% 163 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 84%
Mushkin Chronos 120GB-$70 862 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 24GB free Firmware: 609ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4061555 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -64355789957152 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 780 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 318 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 25 46 25772818457 (C2) HDA temperature 25 46 25772818457 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4061555 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4061555 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4061555 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 8589934592 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7421 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6362 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6362 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5102	73.8% Very good	Read 383 Write 236 Mixed 237 63% 285 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 95 4K Mixed 19.2 115% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 81.3 105% 186 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 84%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 14GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7393 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2625 (B1) Unknown 96 96 143 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 49 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 255 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17319359133	72.3% Very good	Read 492 Write 324 Mixed 368 88% 395 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 61.2 4K Mixed 18.9 90% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 193 DQ Write 75.7 DQ Mixed 60.8 64% 110 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 76%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 45GB free Firmware: CR100-10 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7296 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4846 (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 5218 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2137 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 48 25 (C2) HDA temperature 163 82 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 871323 (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 26	32.3% Below average	Read 64.2 Write 48.2 Mixed 61.4 44% 57.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.35 84% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 32.3% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 9,944 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	68.3% Good	MC Read 24.2 MC Write 25.1 MC Mixed 21 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 23.1 SC Mixed 23 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 57.1 70% 57.1 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 70%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97-G43 (MS-7816)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	228x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	205x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	88x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	141x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	58x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	46x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	27x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	41x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	39x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	35x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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