MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	121% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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 Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	19.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	5.5 Days
Run Date	Apr 07 '18 at 05:02
Run Duration	319 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing as expected (47^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 (89^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 126 2-Core 235 87% 152 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 634 64% 520 Pts	64-Core 650 40% 650 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.3% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 111 Parallax 110 84% 108 fps	MRender 91.4 Gravity 96.5 Splatting 88.2 75% 92 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
MyDigitalSSD BPX NVMe PCIe M.2 480GB-$148 1,613 User benchmarks, average bench 154% 377GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM04.0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 769 Write 732 Mixed 728 166% 743 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 96.4 4K Mixed 32.7 140% 53.5 MB/s	DQ Read 32.8 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 22.5 30% 52.7 MB/s
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 207%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 103GB free Firmware: DXT06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 36299 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 203 (B1) Unknown 97 97 29 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 57 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 95 95 4106 (EB) Unknown 99 99 62 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6060808542	50.1% Above average	Read 320 Write 132 Mixed 3.28 33% 152 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 79.5 4K Mixed 9.64 96% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 17.4 DQ Write 84 DQ Mixed 24.3 26% 41.9 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 73%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 92GB free Firmware: DXT09B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 30964 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 113 (B1) Unknown 98 98 20 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 55 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5179036800	53.8% Above average	Read 382 Write 132 Mixed 153 48% 222 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 77.6 4K Mixed 9.8 96% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 29.1 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 9.78 27% 54.6 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 73%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 53GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 117 159095802 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -83288005759782 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 342 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 149 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 159095802 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 159095802 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 159095802 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 20154 (EA) Unknown 0 0 20524 (F1) Unknown 0 0 20524 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6409	47.6% Average	Read 194 Write 112 Mixed 119 31% 142 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 11.5 101% 44.5 MB/s	DQ Read 93.5 DQ Write 97.6 DQ Mixed 31.4 41% 74.2 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 61%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 99 219786376 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 78 78 23251 (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 5352 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15791399 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 31719 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 56 41 1250826649644 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 94 94 12384 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 8 8 185732 (C2) HDA temperature 44 59 -140737488355284 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 120 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 120 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -69995082014686 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10455727891 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8663943783	65.5% Good	Read 68.3 Write 160 Mixed 166 100% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.3 96% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 114%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 182 3858 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6897 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9236 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 34 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6878 (C2) HDA temperature 99 89 48 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	110% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 199 Mixed 175 140% 186 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 3.14 4K Mixed 0.47 149% 1.51 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 1600 C7 4x8GB 329 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	55% Above average	MC Read 19.4 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 17.2 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 16.4 43% 14.9 GB/s	Latency 57.7 69% 57.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 86%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	829x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	164x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	96x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x
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 $94Bench 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 $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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