MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 41% Speed boat	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 35% Jet ski


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 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 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	43.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 04 '17 at 11:19
Run Duration	215 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	2%

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
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 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 92.3 1-Core 126 2-Core 238 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 656 68% 546 Pts	64-Core 660 41% 660 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Sapphire(174B 3001) CLim: 1175 MHz, MLim: 1700 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 17.2.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	43.2% Average	Lighting 56.2 Reflection 37.4 Parallax 69.2 46% 54.3 fps	MRender 36 Gravity 55.5 Splatting 47.1 38% 46.2 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 43.2% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 180GB free Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 2217 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 841 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 466 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1638467 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 108 (C2) HDA temperature 75 60 171799937049 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5662 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4211 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5332 (F4) Unknown 100 100 25 (F5) Unknown 100 100 67 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1746944	101% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 504 Mixed 381 104% 468 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 14.1 120% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 341 DQ Mixed 14 102% 235 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 111%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 40944576 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2274 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 81876246 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5154 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1773 (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 74 50 60583837722 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 318 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22578 (C2) HDA temperature 26 50 -140737488355302 (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 5351529254189 (F1) Unknown 100 253 33292022771 (F2) Unknown 100 253 51328041203	108% Outstanding	Read 199 Write 177 Mixed 176 138% 184 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.37 103% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 114%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 729GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 169 4491 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6171 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16322 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4062 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 929 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5241 (C2) HDA temperature 117 97 30 (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 17	71.1% Very good	Read 137 Write 111 Mixed 121 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.43 134% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 76%
WD WD6000HLHX-01JJPV0 600GB 6,863 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 388GB free Firmware: 04.05G04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 25 (03) Spinup time 235 233 3241 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4829 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18910 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4485 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2400 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2429 (C2) HDA temperature 124 105 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 8 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	73.6% Very good	Read 133 Write 123 Mixed 123 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 2.83 4K Mixed 0.68 173% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 80%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 329GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 75 64 33149480 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 78 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1457293 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 158 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 78 (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 76 56 437452824 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 78 (C2) HDA temperature 24 17 73014444056 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 3 33149480 (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 44036299686041 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2981687056 (F2) Unknown 100 253 465635140	90.4% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 144 Mixed 121 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.3 88% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 112%
WD Green 500GB (2009)-$23 63,281 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 396GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 188 186 3575 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5355 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7100 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2961 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 291 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 164 164 110626 (C2) HDA temperature 117 92 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 3758 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	49.2% Average	Read 93.3 Write 78 Mixed 81.8 64% 84.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.2 66% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 77,652 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	60.1% Good	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 21.8 MC Mixed 18.2 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 22.3 SC Mixed 20.6 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	247x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	44x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	15x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	65x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	29x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	29x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	17x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	18x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	15x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $642

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