MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 69.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	63.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	68.8% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 11 '17 at 07:17
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th 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 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	69.1% Good	Memory 90 1-Core 72.5 2-Core 143 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 262 8-Core 434 42% 348 Pts	64-Core 435 27% 435 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.11.4 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	63.9% Good	Lighting 82.7 Reflection 56 Parallax 99.5 67% 79.4 fps	MRender 57.5 Gravity 76.4 Splatting 73.2 57% 69 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: X312 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 253 100 3018 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 977 (A5) Unknown 100 100 601384420576 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A8) Unknown 100 100 38 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 28 (AE) Unknown 100 100 47 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 44 188979478560 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5901372884318 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6688 (EA) Unknown 100 100 13175 (F1) Unknown 253 253 11293 (F2) Unknown 253 253 13359 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	68.8% Good	Read 478 Write 304 Mixed 242 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 43.7 4K Mixed 17.8 81% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 184 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 49.3 64% 117 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 101%
Seagate ST310005 28AS 1TB 6,973 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 389GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 148123130 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1801 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 953112 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 817 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 587 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 49 420675606 (C2) HDA temperature 22 51 38654705686 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 24 148123130 (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 59700045416920 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2450774376 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1194154824	67.5% Good	Read 120 Write 115 Mixed 114 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.62 137% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 2,161 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	47.8% Average	MC Read 19.3 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 17 49% 17 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 12.3 30% 10.5 GB/s	Latency 67.3 60% 67.3 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 71%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	960x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	412x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 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	141x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	87x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 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 $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