MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	61.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	30.3% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '17 at 00:26
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.6 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.1% Very good	Memory 91 1-Core 77 2-Core 150 65% 106 Pts	4-Core 277 8-Core 493 46% 385 Pts	64-Core 495 31% 495 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 580-$130 360,351 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Sapphire(1DA2 E366) CLim: 1450 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.4.3 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61.8% Good	Lighting 79.2 Reflection 73.5 Parallax 95.8 64% 82.8 fps	MRender 73.3 Gravity 75.7 Splatting 61.2 56% 70.1 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SP900 64GB 416 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 3GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.6c Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8612236353 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 -35064112986144 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3152 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 588 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 41 55 64428113961 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8612236353 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8612236353 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8612236353 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 18488 (EA) Unknown 0 0 15160 (F1) Unknown 0 0 15160 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14487	30.3% Below average	Read 168 Write 49.2 Mixed 70.3 21% 95.7 MB/s	4K Read 17.1 4K Write 50.7 4K Mixed 8.6 64% 25.5 MB/s	DQ Read 46.6 DQ Write 55.8 DQ Mixed 16.3 22% 39.5 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 30.3% Great: 62%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 258GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 169 168 2516 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 540 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2893 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 540 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 194 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3957 (C2) HDA temperature 112 101 31 (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	75.5% Very good	Read 139 Write 125 Mixed 125 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.35 116% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 109%
WD WD3200KS-00PFB0 320GB 3,103 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 198GB free Firmware: 21.00M21 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 181 5741 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11508 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 36033 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 90 90 10081 (BE) vendor-specific 65 43 35 (C2) HDA temperature 115 93 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 199 199 61 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 199 197 61 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 199 197 61	35.8% Below average	Read 61.5 Write 62.7 Mixed 60 46% 61.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.46 114% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 35.8% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 5,634 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.1% Average	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 15.5 MC Mixed 15.6 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 9 SC Mixed 13 31% 11 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 72%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	960x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	412x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	264x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	166x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	149x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	141x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	87x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	140x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	47x
1866 CL10 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 54%, 7,244 samples	34x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $289

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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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