MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 73.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	109% 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	56% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1824 x 1026 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Sep 29 '17 at 01:44
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.6 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	Memory 93.4 1-Core 82.1 2-Core 153 67% 109 Pts	4-Core 291 8-Core 498 48% 394 Pts	64-Core 489 30% 489 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	109% Outstanding	Lighting 131 Reflection 172 Parallax 147 107% 150 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 183 Splatting 130 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 35GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 209 100 4817 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1315 (A6) Unknown 100 100 164 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 216 (A9) Unknown 100 100 33 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 196 (AE) Unknown 100 100 648 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 100 279172874284 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 43100 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3130 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5882	70.7% Very good	Read 505 Write 356 Mixed 415 94% 425 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 65 4K Mixed 4.29 77% 31.2 MB/s	DQ Read 178 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 25.2 60% 124 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 86%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 19 100 6163 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1394 (A6) Unknown 100 100 386 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 437 (A9) Unknown 100 100 11 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 422 (AE) Unknown 100 100 671 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 100 261993005100 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 18 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 14 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 40643 (F1) Unknown 253 253 11788 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11400	56% Above average	Read 505 Write 200 Mixed 282 72% 329 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 61.4 4K Mixed 3.71 72% 29.2 MB/s	DQ Read 26 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 3.81 28% 61.8 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 78%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$60 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 129GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 169 4366 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 391 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3509 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 391 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 211 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 35420 (C2) HDA temperature 110 102 37 (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	64.7% Good	Read 114 Write 111 Mixed 90.8 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.25 91% 1 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4GBH1X04F1AA28-15 Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX 4GBH1X04F1AA28-15 Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX 16GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 800, 800, 800, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 16.2 MC Mixed 19 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 9.9 SC Mixed 13 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 61.3 65% 61.3 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 54%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	961x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	412x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 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	142x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	87x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16