MSI Z97 GUARD-PRO (MS-7923)

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	63% 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.

System	MSI MS-7923
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GUARD-PRO (MS-7923) (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit väriä
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140422
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 15 '17 at 21:57
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 96.3 1-Core 116 2-Core 225 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 437 60% 448 Pts	64-Core 458 28% 458 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1619 MHz, MLim: 1777 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61.6% Good	Lighting 78.8 Reflection 77 Parallax 70.3 64% 75.4 fps	MRender 75.7 Gravity 72.6 Splatting 61.7 56% 70 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2494 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 248 (64) Unknown 100 100 2540384 (65) Unknown 100 100 441472 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 22 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 98 98 748 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1377 (B7) Unknown 98 98 10 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 37 100 223339544613 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 1 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4497 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2294 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3446 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5904 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 1	63% Good	Read 465 Write 258 Mixed 256 72% 326 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 53.4 4K Mixed 10.3 86% 31.1 MB/s	DQ Read 30.3 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 10.1 32% 65.7 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 88%
HGST Travelstar 5K1000 2.5" 1TB 129,581 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 408GB free Firmware: JA0OA710 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 176 100 73014444033 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 3137 (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 88 88 5414 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2189 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 262147 (BE) vendor-specific 64 51 438632484 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 194 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4653127 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 214713 (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 100 100 1 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	46.2% Average	Read 79 Write 81.7 Mixed 81.2 61% 80.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 46.2% Great: 57%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 86GB free Firmware: HP61 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 93 25093825 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5731 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 307722930 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8013 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2701 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1477134608 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 236 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 42 382807638049 (C2) HDA temperature 33 58 64424509473 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 23 25093825 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	58.1% Above average	Read 106 Write 95.9 Mixed 90.5 73% 97.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.46 106% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GB 1,780 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	79.6% Very good	MC Read 28.6 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 25.5 80% 28.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.6 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 26.1 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 52.9 76% 52.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 80%

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Typical Z97 GUARD-PRO (MS-7923) Builds (Compare 234 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

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Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GUARD-PRO (MS-7923)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	59x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	59x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	46x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	30x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	20x

SSD
BX500 240GBCrucial $29Bench 56%, 142,801 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	7x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	6x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	10x
DDR3 1600 Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G 16GBUnknownBench 57%, 60 samples	8x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	8x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $577

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 $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