MSI H97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918)

Performance Results


Gaming 48% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 74.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	61.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	50.7% 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.

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System	MSI MS-7918
Motherboard	MSI H97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140421
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 18 '17 at 06:32
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4460-$194 245,403 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	Memory 84.8 1-Core 95.8 2-Core 192 72% 124 Pts	4-Core 370 8-Core 369 49% 369 Pts	64-Core 371 23% 371 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85B6) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.2% Good	Lighting 76.3 Reflection 78.3 Parallax 68.6 62% 74.4 fps	MRender 71.6 Gravity 70.9 Splatting 73.9 59% 72.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 147GB free (System drive) Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 13371028 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 42623255451561 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2785 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 97 (B1) Unknown 0 0 95 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 46 60132556831 (C2) HDA temperature 31 46 60132556831 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13371028 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13371028 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13371028 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 38048 (EA) Unknown 0 0 31559 (F1) Unknown 0 0 31559 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18208	50.7% Above average	Read 462 Write 188 Mixed 239 65% 296 MB/s	4K Read 16.5 4K Write 51.5 4K Mixed 9.58 65% 25.9 MB/s	DQ Read 19.5 DQ Write 72.3 DQ Mixed 9.21 18% 33.7 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 626GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 105709704 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7123 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 5116022 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5361 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2756 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 58 504758301 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23372 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 51539607581 (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 3530463118792 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6267460566 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15377609556	89% Excellent	Read 166 Write 144 Mixed 147 115% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.17 93% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 0215 CMY8GX3M2A1600C9 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 0215 CMY8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	51.4% Above average	MC Read 18 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 16.4 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 16.3 SC Mixed 16.4 44% 15.2 GB/s	Latency 72.2 55% 72.2 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 62%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI H97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) - $220

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	304x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	267x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	223x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	282x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	132x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	120x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	78x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	30x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	29x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	69x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	45x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	41x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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 $45	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