MSI 970A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7992)

Performance Results


Gaming 44% Speed boat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


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 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 68.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	61.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	145% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

System	MSI MS-7992
Motherboard	MSI 970A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7992) (all builds)
Memory	29.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160826
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jun 12 '17 at 17:21
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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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
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	68.2% Good	Memory 90.6 1-Core 74.1 2-Core 131 62% 98.6 Pts	4-Core 249 8-Core 454 42% 352 Pts	64-Core 459 28% 459 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6267) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.1% Good	Lighting 77.8 Reflection 73.7 Parallax 63.4 63% 71.6 fps	MRender 65.8 Gravity 69.7 Splatting 70.7 57% 68.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 138GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	145% Outstanding	Read 1,314 Write 934 Mixed 1,016 242% 1,088 MB/s	4K Read 40.3 4K Write 59.3 4K Mixed 16.4 114% 38.7 MB/s	DQ Read 46.7 DQ Write 79 DQ Mixed 17.1 26% 47.6 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 145% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 100 49448048 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 110 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 9203888 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 256 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 107 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 55 420610073 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 241 (C2) HDA temperature 25 45 77309411353 (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 -46819438493443 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2059336877 (F2) Unknown 100 253 193562877526	103% Outstanding	Read 198 Write 160 Mixed 158 129% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.23 89% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 113%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 1TB 26,179 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 157 154 7125 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4690 (05) Reallocated sector count 165 165 274 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29646 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3032 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 151 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4690 (C2) HDA temperature 123 100 27 (C4) Reallocation count 134 134 66 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 194 31 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 194 28 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (C8) Write error rate 200 193 1	93.7% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 152 Mixed 156 121% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 3.54 4K Mixed 0.62 166% 1.64 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 51%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 2TB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 194 182 6300 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3733 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 28921 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3013 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1943 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 122 122 234869 (C2) HDA temperature 120 97 27 (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 0	95.9% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 162 Mixed 156 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 3.52 4K Mixed 0.58 161% 1.61 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 57%
Samsung HD080HJ/P 80GB-$25 1,814 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 74GB free Firmware: ZH100-34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 4224 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2213 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10559 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1241 (BE) vendor-specific 139 55 33 (C2) HDA temperature 139 55 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 10114 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	35% Below average	Read 59.8 Write 61.6 Mixed 58.6 45% 60 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.49 108% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 35% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1866 CL10 Series 4x8GB 2,056 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.5% Average	MC Read 19 MC Write 15.5 MC Mixed 17.3 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 12.9 30% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 66.4 60% 66.4 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 77%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: MSI 970A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7992)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	86x
FX-8300AMD $168Bench 58%, 49,767 samples	24x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	42x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	14x
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	13x

SSD
SA400M8240G 240GBKingstonBench 70%, 27,523 samples	13x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	7x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	4x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	11x
1866 CL10 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 54%, 7,244 samples	5x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	4x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $189

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