MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 73.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	65.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	64.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	3.4 Days
Run Date	Jun 27 '17 at 08:51
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (60^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 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.3% Very good	Memory 92.8 1-Core 76.1 2-Core 151 65% 107 Pts	4-Core 292 8-Core 467 47% 380 Pts	64-Core 467 29% 467 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.6.2 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	65.9% Good	Lighting 83.4 Reflection 58.9 Parallax 118 68% 86.8 fps	MRender 59 Gravity 91 Splatting 75.7 62% 75.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 535 Series 180GB-$100 415 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 96GB free (System drive) Firmware: RG20 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1813 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 875 (AA) Unknown 93 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 39 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 34 100 64427261986 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 39 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 260545 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 52 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 93 100 0 (E9) Unknown 76 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 260545 (F2) Unknown 100 100 286066 (F9) Unknown 100 100 68724	64.2% Good	Read 506 Write 203 Mixed 291 73% 334 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 56 4K Mixed 15.9 83% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 163 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 11.6 48% 107 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 87%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 531GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 68 (03) Spinup time 128 128 12896698547 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 23 (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 55 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 23 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 150325428256 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	84.2% Excellent	Read 138 Write 156 Mixed 161 115% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 0.74 4K Mixed 0.16 50% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 107%
Seagate Desktop 2TB 3,779 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 903GB free, PID 3300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	15.3% Very poor	Read 29 Write 30.3 Mixed 30.4 39% 29.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.5 67% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 15.3% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D18ADS3.16FE 2x8GB 2,913 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.8% Above average	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 15.8 MC Mixed 18.4 53% 18.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 12 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 72%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 23%

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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 $129Bench 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 $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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