MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% 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	62.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150814
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '17 at 11:18
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing as expected (54^th 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 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	82.4% Excellent	Memory 88.3 1-Core 125 2-Core 244 85% 152 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 658 66% 535 Pts	64-Core 654 40% 654 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8593) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 146 Reflection 157 Parallax 145 119% 149 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 142 Splatting 113 101% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force GS 128GB-$150 5,048 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 119GB free Firmware: 5.40 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4598828 (05) Reallocated sector count 95 95 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -124768799938561 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 989 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 173 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 59 64428376093 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4598828 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4598828 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4598828 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 19390 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11186 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11186 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6933	80.6% Excellent	Read 505 Write 207 Mixed 239 69% 317 MB/s	4K Read 35.9 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 18.8 132% 52.1 MB/s	DQ Read 209 DQ Write 226 DQ Mixed 57.8 88% 164 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 86%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 103GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	62.9% Good	Read 162 Write 176 Mixed 468 61% 269 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 24.4 144% 59.2 MB/s	DQ Read 33.3 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 23.9 35% 61.5 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 157%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 639GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 64134912 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3818 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 57227715 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10197 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 980 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 71 52 488439837 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 45 45 110505 (C2) HDA temperature 29 48 51539607581 (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 -104629698292542 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21991572358 (F2) Unknown 100 253 666488623519	80.7% Excellent	Read 148 Write 133 Mixed 136 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.21 78% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.5% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 15.8 50% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 19 SC Mixed 17.2 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 69.2 58% 69.2 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 85%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) - $203

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	829x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	164x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	96x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	87x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	75x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	58x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	46x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	45x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	38x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	37x

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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