MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 81.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	56.2% 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	123% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 18 '17 at 05:56
Run Duration	617 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	49%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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 above expectations (62^nd percentile)	81.1% Excellent	Memory 91.9 1-Core 116 2-Core 214 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 612 61% 496 Pts	64-Core 633 39% 633 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 580-$130 360,351 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Sapphire(1DA2 E366) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	56.2% Above average	Lighting 71.1 Reflection 70.9 Parallax 88.3 58% 76.8 fps	MRender 70.6 Gravity 67.5 Splatting 58 53% 65.4 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 223GB free Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 3666 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1462 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 466 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2883689 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 195 (C2) HDA temperature 68 59 176094904352 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 9849 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7313 (F2) Unknown 100 100 10364 (F4) Unknown 100 100 44 (F5) Unknown 100 100 105 (F6) Unknown 100 100 3034496	92.7% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 497 Mixed 504 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 86 4K Mixed 14.1 107% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 180 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 14.3 76% 169 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 111%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	123% Outstanding	Read 708 Write 533 Mixed 553 133% 598 MB/s	4K Read 50.7 4K Write 91.1 4K Mixed 39.3 175% 60.3 MB/s	DQ Read 161 DQ Write 260 DQ Mixed 79 97% 167 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 142365176 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3046 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 84717699 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6627 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2400 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032835 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 50 60718972962 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 411 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 33712 (C2) HDA temperature 34 50 -140737488355294 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -116346369077036 (F1) Unknown 100 253 38680343420 (F2) Unknown 100 253 54321275475	106% Outstanding	Read 201 Write 168 Mixed 167 134% 179 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.28 76% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 114%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 875GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 169 4300 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6950 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17817 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4689 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1018 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5931 (C2) HDA temperature 108 97 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 3	71.1% Very good	Read 142 Write 106 Mixed 124 94% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.24 72% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 76%
WD WD6000HLHX-01JJPV0 600GB 6,863 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 280GB free Firmware: 04.05G04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 25 (03) Spinup time 235 233 3250 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5500 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20416 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5110 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2486 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3014 (C2) HDA temperature 117 105 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 8 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	70.2% Very good	Read 130 Write 114 Mixed 111 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 3.08 4K Mixed 0.62 165% 1.55 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 80%
WD Green 500GB (2009)-$23 63,281 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 353GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 189 186 3533 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6179 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8537 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3557 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 352 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 159 159 123984 (C2) HDA temperature 110 92 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3758 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	50% Above average	Read 86.8 Write 87.8 Mixed 81.4 64% 85.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 0.74 4K Mixed 0.29 60% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 54%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 119GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 63 238165854 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 749 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 3070350 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1642 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 705 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 538902560 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 751 (C2) HDA temperature 32 17 73014444064 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 2 238165854 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -51634096830882 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3965085610 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2291934974	88.7% Excellent	Read 169 Write 141 Mixed 129 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.34 87% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 112%
Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 8GB-$7 16,591 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 4GB free, PID 1666 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	5.6% Terrible	Read 31.8 Write 4.46 Mixed 5.81 12% 14 MB/s	4K Read 0.03 4K Write 0.002 4K Mixed 0.001 0% 0.01 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.6% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 77,652 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	57.8% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 17.9 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 20.2 SC Mixed 17.5 49% 17.2 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	247x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	44x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	15x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	65x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	29x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	29x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	17x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $159Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	18x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	15x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16