MSI Z97 GAMING 9 AC (MS-7926)

Performance Results


Gaming 112% UFO	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 90% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 83.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	136% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	65.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7926
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 9 AC (MS-7926) (all builds)
Memory	26.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150527
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 27 '17 at 08:03
Run Duration	242 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Memory 94.7 1-Core 125 2-Core 186 81% 135 Pts	4-Core 395 8-Core 553 60% 474 Pts	64-Core 562 35% 562 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3769) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 190 Reflection 216 Parallax 205 155% 204 fps	MRender 138 Gravity 188 Splatting 134 124% 153 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 20338 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 774 (B1) Unknown 97 97 34 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 44 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 151 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24981988171	65.8% Good	Read 508 Write 207 Mixed 57.3 56% 257 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 32 4K Mixed 15.9 93% 28.2 MB/s	DQ Read 214 DQ Write 46.1 DQ Mixed 9.18 38% 89.7 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 118%
SK hynix SC215 M.2 2242 32GB 102 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 12GB free Firmware: 50001L00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5940 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 687 (64) Unknown 100 100 2961857 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 44 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 88 88 370 (B2) Unknown 100 100 5 (B3) Unknown 100 100 9 (B4) Unknown 100 100 327 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 253 253 0 (B7) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 48 0 73018572848 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 253 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 99 99 2 (EA) Unknown 100 100 11503 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7167 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2086 (FA) Read error retry rate 253 253 0	51.6% Above average	Read 399 Write 71 Mixed 119 42% 197 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 69.8 4K Mixed 12.8 90% 35.7 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 70.2 DQ Mixed 32.3 46% 89.1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 59%
HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB-$60 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2.5TB free Firmware: MJAOA5E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 78 (03) Spinup time 127 127 51579388513 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 9529 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 19873 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 812 (C0) Power-off retract count 93 93 9568 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 9568 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 236224249889 (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 200 200 0	86.4% Excellent	Read 152 Write 149 Mixed 139 110% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.18 67% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 92%
WD Re 3TB (2012)-$55 2,104 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01K01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 147 137 11608 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2159 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 5938 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 446 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2122 (C2) HDA temperature 122 101 30 (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 0	68.9% Good	Read 126 Write 113 Mixed 105 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.91 4K Mixed 0.49 143% 1.41 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 96%
WD Purple 2TB (2014)-$67 19,126 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 148GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 171 4266 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2817 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11116 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 491 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2923 (C2) HDA temperature 118 103 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	49.9% Average	Read 88.9 Write 84.9 Mixed 89.3 66% 87.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.15 76% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 86%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 61GB free Firmware: CR100-12 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7680 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10499 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 45661 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1289 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 81387 (BB) vendor-specific 97 97 851972 (BC) Unknown 100 100 10 (BE) vendor-specific 75 51 25 (C2) HDA temperature 154 91 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 81387 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2584 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 490	35.5% Below average	Read 57.7 Write 66.1 Mixed 63 47% 62.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.29 65% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 35.5% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 4x8GB 2,133 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	59.4% Above average	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 17.7 59% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 17.4 SC Mixed 14.2 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 58.1 69% 58.1 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 86%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 56%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 9 AC (MS-7926) - $430

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	71x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	12x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	5x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	8x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	7x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	6x

SSD
MX100 256GBCrucial $116Bench 83%, 55,768 samples	5x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	4x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	3x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 74%, 7,519 samples	5x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	5x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 56%, 2,161 samples	4x

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Total price: $1,026

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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