MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 70.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	98.9% 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	62.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150512
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 23 '16 at 14:36
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd 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 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	Memory 91.9 1-Core 71.5 2-Core 140 63% 101 Pts	4-Core 271 8-Core 412 42% 342 Pts	64-Core 428 26% 428 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	98.9% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 149 Parallax 142 100% 138 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 132 Splatting 110 97% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 98.9% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X110 128GB-$89 11,245 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: X211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 11301 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1843 (A7) Unknown 100 100 32 (A8) Unknown 100 100 627 (A9) Unknown 100 100 155 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 457 (AE) Unknown 100 100 271 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 38 163210068001 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3863 (E8) Unknown 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3863 (F1) Unknown 253 253 39113061543 (F2) Unknown 253 253 37338937292 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	62.6% Good	Read 441 Write 163 Mixed 227 61% 277 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 54.7 4K Mixed 19.9 96% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 44.7 61% 112 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 194991624 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 590 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12521112 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2286 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 321 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 64 555024416 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1994 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 73014444064 (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 -87720412051509 (F1) Unknown 100 253 32558975316 (F2) Unknown 100 253 39182941254	98.4% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 164 Mixed 165 128% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.24 86% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 398GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 139673440 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2000 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 21564798129 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9804 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1373 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 67 49 588644385 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 148 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 41 41 118312 (C2) HDA temperature 33 51 68719476769 (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 -126744484899345 (F1) Unknown 100 253 32102895687 (F2) Unknown 100 253 50589026695	70.5% Very good	Read 116 Write 130 Mixed 138 97% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.27 74% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GB 14,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.5% Average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 8.4 SC Mixed 12.9 30% 10.5 GB/s	Latency 64.2 62% 64.2 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 64%

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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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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 $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