MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 72.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	80.8% 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	57.5% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 04 '17 at 08:07
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th 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 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.7% Very good	Memory 92.2 1-Core 69.3 2-Core 144 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 288 8-Core 442 45% 365 Pts	64-Core 441 27% 441 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.8% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 107 Parallax 96.1 84% 102 fps	MRender 89.8 Gravity 95.9 Splatting 88.5 75% 91.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 54GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10155665 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -3599182590551 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1085 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 86 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 23 35 60131835927 (C2) HDA temperature 23 35 60131835927 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10155665 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10155665 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10155665 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 42949672961 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10291 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5619 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5619 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3625 (F4) Unknown 98 98 4653127	57.5% Above average	Read 471 Write 114 Mixed 127 51% 237 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 62 4K Mixed 13.7 92% 34.3 MB/s	DQ Read 115 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 32.3 48% 90.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 73%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 857GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 168 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2663 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13631 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1560 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 218 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2468 (C2) HDA temperature 117 94 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 61 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	97.4% Outstanding	Read 199 Write 140 Mixed 138 119% 159 MB/s	4K Read 1.27 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.25 123% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 109%
WD WD2003FYPS-27W9B 2TB 9,937 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 786GB free Firmware: 04.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 152 150 9391 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 105 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 738 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 94 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 98 (C2) HDA temperature 121 115 31 (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
Poor: 30% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.9% Above average	MC Read 22 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 18.2 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 8.7 SC Mixed 12.7 30% 10.5 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 72%

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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 $175Bench 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 $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 $179	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