MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 93.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	111% 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	82.4% 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.

System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150213
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 10 '17 at 02:58
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 131 2-Core 256 91% 161 Pts	4-Core 481 8-Core 690 73% 585 Pts	64-Core 690 43% 690 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gainward(10B0 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2627 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 147 Reflection 152 Parallax 147 120% 149 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 141 Splatting 110 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 83GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3800 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 749 (A5) Unknown 100 100 64442269926 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 14 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1101 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 14 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 65 279174250529 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 279175626817 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3879 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4733 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4107 (F2) Unknown 253 253 10920 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	82.8% Excellent	Read 497 Write 246 Mixed 229 71% 324 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 78.8 4K Mixed 19.6 122% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 38.1 93% 199 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 107%
SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB-$75 16,709 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 11GB free (System drive) Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 13624 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2617 (A6) Unknown 100 100 212 (A7) Unknown 100 100 35 (A8) Unknown 100 100 653 (A9) Unknown 100 100 157 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 546 (AE) Unknown 100 100 77 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 94 403728039968 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4628 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 71020 (F1) Unknown 253 253 29170 (F2) Unknown 253 253 15567 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	82.4% Excellent	Read 407 Write 250 Mixed 263 68% 307 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 23.8 135% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 46.4 90% 185 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 91%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 53815584 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4917 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12923255056 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13362 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2172 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 79 79 21 (BE) vendor-specific 65 41 1508122099747 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 72 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 67209 (C2) HDA temperature 35 59 -140737488355293 (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 -14555644162725 (F1) Unknown 100 253 36784619724 (F2) Unknown 100 253 34821213563	70.1% Very good	Read 121 Write 124 Mixed 126 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.24 74% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 113%
WD WD7502AAEX-00Y9A0 750GB 4,731 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 6GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 12 (03) Spinup time 172 168 4383 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9298 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27629 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4169 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9201 (C2) HDA temperature 115 90 32 (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 4 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 6	42.6% Average	Read 76.8 Write 71.3 Mixed 76.3 56% 74.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.5 134% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 42.6% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 5,533 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	MC Read 31 MC Write 30.8 MC Mixed 24.3 82% 28.7 GB/s	SC Read 20.2 SC Write 24.2 SC Mixed 27.6 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 48.2 83% 48.2 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 87%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	247x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	44x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	15x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	65x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	29x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	29x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	17x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	18x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	15x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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