MSI Z97 XPOWER AC (MS-7914)

Performance Results


Gaming 36% Jet ski	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 32% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 65.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	51.2% 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	50.7% 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.

Very high background CPU (87%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7914
Motherboard	MSI Z97 XPOWER AC (MS-7914) (all builds)
Memory	9.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs, 3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150527
Uptime	9.7 Days
Run Date	Jun 25 '17 at 08:17
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	87%

PC Performing as expected (44^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	65.8% Good	Memory 60.3 1-Core 119 2-Core 225 73% 135 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 556 59% 470 Pts	64-Core 612 38% 612 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 295X2 (CrossFire Disabled) 2,533 User benchmarks, average bench 50% AMD(1002 0B2A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1018 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.5.2 Performing below potential (75^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	51.2% Above average	Lighting 62.4 Reflection 57.3 Parallax 79.2 51% 66.3 fps	MRender 56.9 Gravity 54.2 Splatting 74 52% 61.7 fps
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Wildfire 240GB 80 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: 504A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 112 54569471 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -109994112440786 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3511 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 2018 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 58 1095220461603 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 54569471 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 54569471 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 54569471 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14640 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12562 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12562 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12964	50.7% Above average	Read 353 Write 149 Mixed 188 50% 230 MB/s	4K Read 15.8 4K Write 41.9 4K Mixed 15.3 66% 24.3 MB/s	DQ Read 198 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 49.2 70% 132 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 90%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 20GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5550 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1455 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 65 52 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 191 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2799720020	101% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 401 Mixed 413 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 63.6 4K Mixed 40.9 144% 47.7 MB/s	DQ Read 323 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 103 121% 213 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 91111592 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1821 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 973040 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3258 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 870 (B7) Unknown 86 86 14 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 1576056 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 655884320 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 167 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21625 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 60129542176 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 1173 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 69295002354740 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4735044207 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22922318324	95.5% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 156 Mixed 167 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 113%
Seagate ST2000NM0011 2TB-$60 4,076 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1.5TB free Firmware: SN02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 139782077 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5555 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4300029710 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7030 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3342 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 88 60130459879 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 47 706215965 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1955 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6313 (C2) HDA temperature 29 53 42949672989 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 117 99 139782077 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 48	65.8% Good	Read 121 Write 108 Mixed 112 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.49 120% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 86%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 141GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 112 105 7391 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4609 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12348 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2423 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 648 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 187 187 39215 (C2) HDA temperature 118 95 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 191 0	52.3% Above average	Read 99.8 Write 82.3 Mixed 80.7 66% 87.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.19 72% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMT8GX3M2A1866C9 0215 CMT8GX3M2B2133C9 0215 CMT8GX3M2A1866C9 0215 CMT8GX3M2B2133C9 16GB 1867, 2133, 1867, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	44.1% Average	MC Read 16.1 MC Write 18.1 MC Mixed 15.1 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 7.1 SC Write 12.9 SC Mixed 9.8 28% 9.93 GB/s	Latency 127 32% 127 ns

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Gaming 72%

Battleship

Desktop 84%

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Workstation 60%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 XPOWER AC (MS-7914)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	34x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	7x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	2x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	6x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	5x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	5x

SSD
870 QVO 1TBSamsung $106Bench 95%, 80,665 samples	4x
860 EVO M.2 250GBSamsungBench 100%, 26,055 samples	3x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	2x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	6x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 74%, 7,519 samples	3x
F3-14900CL9-4GBSR 0420 F3-1866C10-8GSR 0420 F3-14900CL9-4GBSR 0420 F3-1866C10-8GSR 24GBUnknownBench 61%, 14 samples	3x

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Value: 65% - Good

Total price: $779

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