MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 75% 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 73.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	61.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	38% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (39%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	6.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 21 '16 at 13:18
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	39%

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 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.2% Very good	Memory 93.5 1-Core 72.8 2-Core 146 64% 104 Pts	4-Core 287 8-Core 457 46% 372 Pts	64-Core 457 28% 457 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Nano-$450 504 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Asus(1043 04A4) CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 500 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 16.11.3 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Lighting 77.3 Reflection 55 Parallax 104 63% 78.9 fps	MRender 56.1 Gravity 83 Splatting 72 58% 70.4 fps
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 59%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 18163799 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 114813065757974 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 350 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 105 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 43 64 77313605675 (C2) HDA temperature 43 64 77313605675 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 18163799 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 18163799 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 18163799 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 55834574849 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7357 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2361 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2361 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4159 (F4) Unknown 99 99 3080239	38% Below average	Read 368 Write 114 Mixed 157 46% 213 MB/s	4K Read 19.7 4K Write 16.2 4K Mixed 10.1 51% 15.3 MB/s	DQ Read 25.2 DQ Write 27.7 DQ Mixed 9.56 12% 20.8 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 38% Great: 75%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 311GB free Firmware: 0006SDM2 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 86 48032 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1746 (05) Reallocated sector count 84 84 346 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 158974743 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18666 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1224 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1903 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65544 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 40 103550287899 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 815 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 57 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1173660 (C2) HDA temperature 27 60 64424509467 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 43 48032 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 163 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 163 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	38.1% Below average	Read 65.4 Write 67.5 Mixed 65.8 50% 66.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 0.67 4K Mixed 0.31 65% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 38.1% Great: 43%
Hitachi HTS545050A7E680 500GB 66,048 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 81GB free Firmware: GG2OAH10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 200 100 64424509441 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 502 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 1388 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 377 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 21476540416 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4 (BE) vendor-specific 75 44 320405529 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 312 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1441814 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 37471 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	41.9% Average	Read 83 Write 63 Mixed 68.6 54% 71.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.16 61% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 44,086 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51% Above average	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 15.6 MC Mixed 17.7 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.4 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 13.8 32% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 64%

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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 $129Bench 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 $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