MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 80.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	80.1% 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.

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System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Nov 29 '17 at 12:10
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80.2% Excellent	Memory 89 1-Core 102 2-Core 215 77% 136 Pts	4-Core 410 8-Core 430 56% 420 Pts	64-Core 397 25% 397 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 82%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 480GB-$300 13,412 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 48GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3111 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1297 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 197 197 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 103 (C2) HDA temperature 74 48 223338889242 (F1) Unknown 100 100 194135	81.5% Excellent	Read 513 Write 342 Mixed 350 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 72.9 4K Mixed 10 99% 38.2 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 46.3 96% 199 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 101%
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 20558090 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -76570676944594 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3032 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 771 (B1) Unknown 0 0 96 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 50 1009320591386 (C2) HDA temperature 26 50 1009320591386 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 20558090 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 20558090 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 20558090 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 30833 (EA) Unknown 0 0 23304 (F1) Unknown 0 0 23304 (F2) Unknown 0 0 23480	80.1% Excellent	Read 513 Write 250 Mixed 306 78% 356 MB/s	4K Read 19.4 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 21.4 114% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 272 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 80.7 102% 184 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 178GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 202431320 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4330 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 52 44 8169424552871 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14573 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3086 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1703963 (BD) vendor-specific 84 84 16 (BE) vendor-specific 72 51 69190483996 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 339 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 33868 (C2) HDA temperature 28 49 -140737488355300 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -118725780951196 (F1) Unknown 100 253 118554909886 (F2) Unknown 100 253 215227090934	104% Outstanding	Read 189 Write 173 Mixed 144 126% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.25 84% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 136GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 216665430 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7311 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19877816 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7988 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3135 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 4295360526 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 46 487784477 (C2) HDA temperature 29 54 34359738397 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 19 216665430 (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 -98015448642325 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1093542336 (F2) Unknown 100 253 629404735	46.9% Average	Read 90.5 Write 72.7 Mixed 79.9 61% 81.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.32 80% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 30GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 55965530 (03) Spinup time 100 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5747 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 35672189 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10441 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 5 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2462 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 5 (BD) vendor-specific 81 81 19 (BE) vendor-specific 68 40 1353452814368 (C2) HDA temperature 32 60 38654705696 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 27 55965530 (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 37048387905031 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1134654067 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1253150834	47.5% Average	Read 86.6 Write 78.9 Mixed 71.8 59% 79.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.41 88% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 19,522 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	57.9% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 18.2 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 12.6 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 15.8 46% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	828x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	163x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	96x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	189x
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 $109Bench 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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Total price: $851

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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