MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 127% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 110% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	140% 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	46.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	28.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140918
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 19 '17 at 20:56
Run Duration	202 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.8 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Memory 95.2 1-Core 144 2-Core 287 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 476 8-Core 763 76% 619 Pts	64-Core 765 47% 765 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	140% Outstanding	Lighting 199 Reflection 218 Parallax 197 162% 205 fps	MRender 138 Gravity 194 Splatting 140 128% 157 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 140% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 289GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6374 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1216 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 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 72 51 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8887153065	101% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 420 Mixed 346 96% 430 MB/s	4K Read 42 4K Write 97.4 4K Mixed 25.8 148% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 272 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 40.5 89% 184 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 135%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: 600A Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	46.7% Average	Read 335 Write 111 Mixed 137 42% 194 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 70.9 4K Mixed 11.4 80% 33.6 MB/s	DQ Read 54.2 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 14.9 29% 56.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 69348696 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1925 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 18764509 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9437 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1841 (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 76 59 4698669080 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 40421 (C2) HDA temperature 24 41 -140737488355304 (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 9070970936571 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3532295882 (F2) Unknown 100 253 11079148962	95.9% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 166 Mixed 101 108% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.34 103% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 107GB free Firmware: KC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 2448 (03) Spinup time 100 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3644 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 245386107 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19757 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3518 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 568 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 57 454033435 (C2) HDA temperature 27 43 21474836507 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 30 2448 (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 11257109302575 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2528423510 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1184910147	51.3% Above average	Read 99.7 Write 79.2 Mixed 51.4 57% 76.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 0.89 4K Mixed 0.64 103% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 74GB free Firmware: KC43 Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	47.4% Average	Read 87.1 Write 76.4 Mixed 79.6 61% 81 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 5.59 4K Mixed 0.59 197% 2.28 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 88%

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 1600 MHz clocked @ 1800 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	67.6% Good	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 24 MC Mixed 19.2 65% 22.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 26.4 SC Mixed 23.2 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 56.4 71% 56.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 85%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) - $203

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	829x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	164x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	96x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	87x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	75x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	58x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	46x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	45x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	38x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	37x

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Total price: $851

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 $184	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