MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918)

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 84.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	113% 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	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-7918
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 21 '16 at 09:18
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Memory 97.3 1-Core 117 2-Core 226 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 571 60% 478 Pts	64-Core 612 38% 612 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7290 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 159 Parallax 138 118% 147 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 140 Splatting 116 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 68GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1009 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 396 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 61 53 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7237407735	113% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 404 Mixed 412 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 92.8 4K Mixed 45.5 177% 61.3 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 115 145% 259 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 14GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5995 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2469 (B1) Unknown 89 89 122 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 47 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 146 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24367337731	94.5% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 347 Mixed 328 86% 390 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 72.9 4K Mixed 24.7 137% 47.2 MB/s	DQ Read 366 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 66.3 113% 223 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 30928672 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3189 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 27116007 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5793 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2457 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 67 52 554958881 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 91 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30400 (C2) HDA temperature 33 48 47244640289 (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 22479858831253 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16425952537 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1055992673645	91.8% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 147 Mixed 138 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.22 68% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 2400G 2OZ 2x8GB 231 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	83% Excellent	MC Read 30.2 MC Write 31.8 MC Mixed 26.4 84% 29.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.8 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 25.1 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 49 82% 49 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 86%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	845x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	616x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	307x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	440x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	206x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	175x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	67x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	153x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	98x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	48x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $40	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