MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 64.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	30.3% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	59.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150512
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '17 at 12:48
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	64.5% Good	Memory 83.2 1-Core 73 2-Core 138 60% 98.2 Pts	4-Core 254 8-Core 331 37% 292 Pts	64-Core 345 21% 345 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% Sapphire(174B E271) CLim: 1070 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 16.6 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	30.3% Below average	Lighting 38.2 Reflection 34.5 Parallax 49.6 31% 40.8 fps	MRender 30.4 Gravity 31.9 Splatting 40 28% 34.1 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 30.3% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 11GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8598529612 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -42812234005522 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 225 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 56 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 37 68721901597 (C2) HDA temperature 29 37 68721901597 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 8598529612 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 8598529612 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 8598529612 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 90194313216 (E9) Unknown 0 0 863 (EA) Unknown 0 0 625 (F1) Unknown 0 0 625 (F2) Unknown 0 0 593 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1572868	59.8% Above average	Read 490 Write 134 Mixed 174 58% 266 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 65.8 4K Mixed 18 102% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 28.8 DQ Write 67.2 DQ Mixed 13.3 20% 36.5 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 73%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 172 7691 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6116 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 947 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5954 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2262 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 14900 (C2) HDA temperature 126 98 26 (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	86.5% Excellent	Read 158 Write 144 Mixed 139 110% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.25 100% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC4C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 117940800 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1121 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 920 (07) Seek error rate 51 51 7825703440377 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 23127 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 788 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 56 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 184 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 222522 (C2) HDA temperature 28 44 60129542172 (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 -98964636412798 (F1) Unknown 100 253 64147909440464 (F2) Unknown 100 253 76119600573051	103% Outstanding	Read 149 Write 211 Mixed 188 138% 183 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.43 114% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 113%
Hitachi HDS721050CLA662 500GB 14,997 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 417GB free Firmware: JP2OA41A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 89 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 100 92 (03) Spinup time 117 100 12897681603 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 478 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 100 30 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 18316 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 457 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 98 98 196607 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 660 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 59 421068825 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 976 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 976 (C2) HDA temperature 240 150 176094838809 (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 200 200 0	71.7% Very good	Read 123 Write 127 Mixed 129 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.34 90% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 76%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 374GB free Firmware: 0003BSM1 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 83 103172197 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1042 (05) Reallocated sector count 95 95 111 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 56978069 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1273 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 37 856 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 2301 (BC) Unknown 100 99 27 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 52 505217054 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 527 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 22 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6075 (C2) HDA temperature 30 48 55834574878 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 39 103172197 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 3 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	40.7% Average	Read 65.8 Write 76.1 Mixed 66.8 52% 69.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.34 74% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x4GB 5,347 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 800 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.1% Average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 13.6 MC Mixed 17.4 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.4 SC Write 8.7 SC Mixed 13.4 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 63%

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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 $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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Total price: $289

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