MSI Z97 GAMING 9 ACK (MS-7926)

Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	9.53% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	115% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

System	MSI MS-7926
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 9 ACK (MS-7926) (all builds)
Memory	24.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20141021
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Oct 15 '17 at 16:03
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	TUR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	72.8% Very good	Memory 82.7 1-Core 96 2-Core 191 71% 123 Pts	4-Core 340 8-Core 504 53% 422 Pts	64-Core 577 36% 577 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro 5000 751 User benchmarks, average bench 10% Nvidia(10DE 0770) 2.2GB CLim: 513 MHz, MLim: 747 MHz, Ram: 2.2GB, Driver: 377.11 Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	9.53% Terrible	Lighting 10.8 Reflection 14.9 Parallax 11.6 9% 12.4 fps	MRender 16.6 Gravity 9.3 Splatting 14.3 11% 13.4 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 9.53% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 243GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7445 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 621 (B1) Unknown 94 94 107 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 58 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 107 (F1) Unknown 99 99 86777985616	115% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 402 Mixed 410 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 44.8 4K Write 98.8 4K Mixed 50.6 185% 64.7 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 263 DQ Mixed 116 136% 236 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 134%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 828GB free Firmware: 51.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 10 (03) Spinup time 169 166 6541 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 879 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2677 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 697 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 158 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 16733 (C2) HDA temperature 124 102 26 (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 5	59.4% Above average	Read 111 Write 96 Mixed 89.8 74% 98.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.22 92% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 67%
Seagate ST310005 28AS 1TB 6,973 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 800GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 15453000 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4473 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 262913791 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16773 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2162 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 6 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 55 4850057239 (C2) HDA temperature 23 45 47244640279 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 16 15453000 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -197568472829 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3616274613 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3974996701	70.3% Very good	Read 119 Write 126 Mixed 88 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.4 104% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GB 3,744 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.8% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 20.4 MC Mixed 15.7 53% 18.7 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 16.5 SC Mixed 14.2 40% 14 GB/s	Latency 75.6 53% 75.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 85%

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Gaming 44%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 37%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 9 ACK (MS-7926)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	47x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	6x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	3x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	9x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	7x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	6x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	5x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	4x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	6x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	5x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x8GBKingstonBench 59%, 1,459 samples	3x

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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 $45	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