MSI H97 GUARD-PRO (MS-7923)

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	57.3% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	78.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7923
Motherboard	MSI H97 GUARD-PRO (MS-7923) (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140422
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '17 at 20:51
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing as expected (44^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	73.9% Very good	Memory 88.3 1-Core 110 2-Core 218 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 340 8-Core 376 47% 358 Pts	64-Core 413 26% 413 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 366A) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	57.3% Above average	Lighting 73.5 Reflection 71 Parallax 64.3 60% 69.6 fps	MRender 74 Gravity 66 Splatting 55.7 52% 65.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18771 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 462 (B1) Unknown 96 96 40 (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 68 50 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 188 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17938098485	78.5% Very good	Read 498 Write 340 Mixed 329 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 54.7 4K Mixed 19 110% 37.1 MB/s	DQ Read 39 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 17.3 45% 89.7 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 118%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 115GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 171 2250 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4300 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18484 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 456 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 90 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4209 (C2) HDA temperature 118 97 25 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	71.3% Very good	Read 132 Write 117 Mixed 106 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.08 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.24 57% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32.1% Below average	MC Read 10.2 MC Write 11 MC Mixed 9.3 29% 10.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 10.6 SC Mixed 10.3 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 69.2 58% 69.2 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 32.1% Great: 63%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical H97 GUARD-PRO (MS-7923) Builds (Compare 80 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: MSI H97 GUARD-PRO (MS-7923)

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	18x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	14x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	9x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	14x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	10x
GTX 770Nvidia $279Bench 34%, 116,895 samples	6x

SSD
MX100 256GBCrucial $116Bench 83%, 55,768 samples	5x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $150Bench 336%, 200,600 samples	4x
M500 240GBCrucial $54Bench 77%, 31,779 samples	4x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBKingstonBench 52%, 19,522 samples	4x
ValueSelect DDR3 1600 C11 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 2,884 samples	4x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	3x

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Total price: $510

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 $178	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