MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 92.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	78.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150528
Uptime	5.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '16 at 00:56
Run Duration	219 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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 4.6 GHz, turbo 5.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 139 2-Core 255 93% 164 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 725 74% 598 Pts	64-Core 722 45% 722 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6143 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78.9% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 101 Parallax 91 83% 98 fps	MRender 91.5 Gravity 90.6 Splatting 79.7 71% 87.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 249GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1929 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 247 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 68 58 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5063221910
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 129GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7636 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 985 (B1) Unknown 98 98 15 (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 71 53 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 226 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10636046374	96.8% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 348 Mixed 352 89% 403 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 73.8 4K Mixed 27.9 142% 48.8 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 83.3 119% 225 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 118%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 53GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13183 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1782 (B1) Unknown 99 99 29 (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 71 58 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 474 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5168199079	86.3% Excellent	Read 508 Write 412 Mixed 448 102% 456 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 70.7 4K Mixed 24.9 106% 39.9 MB/s	DQ Read 295 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 75.3 88% 158 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 86%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 1.5TB 689 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 916GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 240 Write 181 Mixed 198 155% 206 MB/s	4K Read 1.16 4K Write 3.22 4K Mixed 0.99 218% 1.79 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 167%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 171325256 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1298 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11947628 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4916 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 676 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 67 55 588120097 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 62 62 77617 (C2) HDA temperature 33 45 47244640289 (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 -10874857191458 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5097505938 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6280971058	77.3% Very good	Read 144 Write 126 Mixed 129 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.22 82% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 114%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 6,017 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 451GB free, PID a007 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	36.7% Below average	Read 89.3 Write 86.8 Mixed 67.5 102% 81.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.2 61% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 36.7% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 16GB 234 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 1333, 1867, 1333, 1867 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	75.4% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 21.5 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 20.8 SC Write 25.3 SC Mixed 26.1 69% 24.1 GB/s	Latency 50.8 79% 50.8 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 78%

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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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Value: 60% - Above average

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 $179	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