MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 49% Yacht	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including moderate gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 55%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	67.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	56.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	4.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '17 at 14:49
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
AMD FX-8350-$119 73,554 User benchmarks - Average bench 57% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	55% Above average	SC Int 80.9 SC Float 65.5 SC Mixed 73.4 59% 73.3 Pts	QC Int 301 QC Float 246 QC Mixed 269 62% 272 Pts	MC Int 491 MC Float 419 MC Mixed 481 70% 464 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$350 53,713 User benchmarks - Average bench 64% Sapphire(174B E347) CLim: 1306 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.7.1 Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	67.6% Good	Lighting 201 Reflection 175 Parallax 258 68% 211 fps	MRender 143 Gravity 192 Splatting 128 67% 154 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 71%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$65 77,296 User benchmarks - Average bench 47% 27GB free Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11219423 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 118936234366354 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 927 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 211 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 42 64427261982 (C2) HDA temperature 30 42 64427261982 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11219423 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11219423 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11219423 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 42949672961 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10338 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7250 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7250 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13105 (F4) Unknown 98 98 5177415	56.9% Above average	Read 416 Write 125 Mixed 155 50% 232 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 66.8 4K Mixed 14.5 96% 36.3 MB/s	DQ Read 84.6 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 34.1 47% 85 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 66%
Maxtor STM3250310AS 250GB 2,568 User benchmarks - Average bench 45% 29GB free Firmware: 3.AAC Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s NCQ !4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 96 82529213 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8770 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 647126404 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18245 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6174 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 135 (BD) vendor-specific 90 90 10 (BE) vendor-specific 69 50 521601055 (C2) HDA temperature 31 50 64424509471 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 78 51 208923831 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	41.7% Average	Read 71 Write 74.5 Mixed 62.8 52% 69.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.25 62% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 41.7% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GB 5,052 User benchmarks - Average bench 47% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	44.8% Average	MC Read 18.5 MC Write 14.1 MC Mixed 14.7 45% 15.8 GB/s	SC Read 9.8 SC Write 9 SC Mixed 12.2 30% 10.3 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 59%

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Gaming 40%

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Desktop 54%

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Workstation 43%

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Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) - $102

CPU
FX-8350AMD $119Bench 57%, 73,554 samples	4,594x
FX-6300AMD $80Bench 48%, 58,105 samples	2,470x
FX-8320AMD $104Bench 52%, 31,657 samples	1,478x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $200Bench 41%, 87,594 samples	1,171x
GTX 970Nvidia $350Bench 64%, 178,167 samples	1,068x
R9 380AMD $200Bench 44%, 21,181 samples	734x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $88Bench 95%, 160,532 samples	932x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $65Bench 47%, 77,296 samples	763x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $150Bench 96%, 100,075 samples	320x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperX $118Bench 58%, 18,937 samples	822x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $63Bench 51%, 9,880 samples	440x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 1x8GBKingstonBench 32%, 6,133 samples	243x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $627

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-7700K $313	Nvidia GTX 1070 $400	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $88
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 $270	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $119
Intel Core i5-7600K $230	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $265	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $150

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $45	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $724	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $33
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $77	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $152	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $22
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB $57	HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB $144	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $20