MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 45% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 70.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	81.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1280 x 720 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 31 '17 at 09:36
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Memory 89.8 1-Core 73.1 2-Core 148 63% 104 Pts	4-Core 280 8-Core 447 45% 363 Pts	64-Core 456 28% 456 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3303) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2027 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.6% Excellent	Lighting 97.1 Reflection 123 Parallax 117 79% 112 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 107 Splatting 107 86% 105 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 20232464 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 940 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 54902563 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2422 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 912 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 18 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 67 46 555221025 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 300 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6932 (C2) HDA temperature 33 54 38654705697 (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 -889058228320 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16293144675 (F2) Unknown 100 253 365572151271	101% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 165 Mixed 158 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.22 78% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 419GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 31762275 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 79 79 22125 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 17511102279 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21559 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6240 (B7) Unknown 56 56 44 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 99 60130525237 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 45 555221025 (C2) HDA temperature 33 55 42949672993 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 13 31762275 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -81076097625820 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1358345571 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2312010993	75.8% Very good	Read 133 Write 132 Mixed 98.2 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.67 138% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 70%
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 290GB free Firmware: 1AC01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 92 92 3340 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3124 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 9702 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8077 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 16 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3026 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 52 387186711 (C2) HDA temperature 71 47 487850013 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 43853 (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 99 91 1397 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	63% Good	Read 108 Write 111 Mixed 106 82% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.48 122% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 62%

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 @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48% Average	MC Read 19 MC Write 15.2 MC Mixed 17.1 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 12.9 30% 10.5 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 63%

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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 $175Bench 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 $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 $179	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