MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918)

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 78%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	50.3% 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 (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7918
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150828
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 09 '17 at 21:46
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	52%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 4.4 GHz, turbo 5.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	78% Very good	Memory 90.3 1-Core 127 2-Core 246 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 370 8-Core 438 52% 404 Pts	64-Core 455 28% 455 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Gigabyte(1458 3721) CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2302 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.1% Good	Lighting 79.5 Reflection 75.6 Parallax 67.2 65% 74.1 fps	MRender 81.8 Gravity 74.5 Splatting 74.4 63% 76.9 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Green 120GB (2016)-$84 21,990 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 57GB free Firmware: Z3311000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 163 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 76 (A5) Unknown 100 100 77319176308 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 7 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 35 279172874278 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 163210854438 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 271 (EA) Unknown 100 100 543 (F1) Unknown 253 253 369 (F2) Unknown 253 253 293 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	53.7% Above average	Read 482 Write 168 Mixed 182 60% 277 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 39 4K Mixed 3.71 65% 23 MB/s	DQ Read 156 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 4.37 41% 97.1 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 71%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1038 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 434 (A5) Unknown 100 100 6893534250640 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 9 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 49 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 44 240518168621 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2405185749552 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 520 (EA) Unknown 100 100 7860 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1965 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2863 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	50.3% Above average	Read 501 Write 38.8 Mixed 185 52% 242 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 68.2 4K Mixed 4.51 70% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 143 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 6.43 57% 130 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 78%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 452GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 174401240 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3385 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 26271130027 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10570 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3321 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 30065229882 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 43 69241471006 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 238 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14675 (C2) HDA temperature 30 57 -140737488355298 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 192 503922 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -64299955377771 (F1) Unknown 100 253 91064688409 (F2) Unknown 100 253 134926580459	110% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 199 Mixed 189 144% 191 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.35 108% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/4G KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/4G KHX1600C10D3/8G 16GB 2,175 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	58.7% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 21.6 MC Mixed 18.9 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 20.6 SC Mixed 17.6 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	845x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	616x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	307x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	440x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	206x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	175x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	67x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	153x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	98x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	48x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

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 $40	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