MSI Z97-S02 (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (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 72.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	98.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	70.7% 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 (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z97-S02 (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	9.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140422
Uptime	10.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 15 '18 at 18:02
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	40%

PC Performing as expected (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 i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	72.9% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 92.1 2-Core 180 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 292 8-Core 501 48% 396 Pts	64-Core 526 32% 526 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Asus(1043 861E) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	98.8% Outstanding	Lighting 127 Reflection 141 Parallax 132 103% 133 fps	MRender 96.1 Gravity 126 Splatting 107 90% 110 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ ARC 100 240GB-$120 11,799 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 33GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14009 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 584 (AB) Unknown 100 100 82492240 (AE) Unknown 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 48 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 99 99 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2976 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4541 (F9) Unknown 100 100 164630050	96% Outstanding	Read 462 Write 418 Mixed 430 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 94.6 4K Mixed 28.3 125% 49.5 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 341 DQ Mixed 71.1 123% 238 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 101%
Intel 330 Series 120GB-$188 11,188 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 18GB free (System drive) Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -48387100639915 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1545 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1477 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 727637 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 727637 (F2) Unknown 100 100 446599 (F9) Unknown 100 100 27790	70.7% Very good	Read 473 Write 143 Mixed 193 59% 270 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 93.6 4K Mixed 17.6 122% 47.9 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 140 DQ Mixed 53.8 74% 138 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 80%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 200085416 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3812 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 59 137505742054 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 23860 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1520 (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 61 46 65147109415 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 91 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 257558 (C2) HDA temperature 39 54 -140737488355289 (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 87677462390681 (F1) Unknown 100 253 49497843201 (F2) Unknown 100 253 43924282449	102% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 173 Mixed 161 130% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.32 91% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 113%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 891GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 126 123 6683 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10046 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 33686 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2518 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 249 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 359167 (C2) HDA temperature 109 90 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	49.3% Average	Read 86.5 Write 85.5 Mixed 56.2 57% 76.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 0.34 4K Mixed 0.18 55% 0.4 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 59%
WD Blue 160GB (2007)-$24 56,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 82GB free Firmware: 05.06H05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 156 3066 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8157 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 40 40 44393 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3045 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 336 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8157 (C2) HDA temperature 103 87 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 46 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	38.7% Below average	Read 68.1 Write 66.4 Mixed 67.4 51% 67.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.38 96% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 1600 2x8GB 2,890 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31.1% Below average	MC Read 10.6 MC Write 10.3 MC Mixed 8.4 28% 9.77 GB/s	SC Read 9 SC Write 9.4 SC Mixed 9.2 26% 9.2 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 31.1% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97-S02 (MS-7821)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	65x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	58x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	31x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	55x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	15x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	15x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	26x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	7x

RAM
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 50%, 23,732 samples	69x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 50%, 27,024 samples	18x
DDR3 1600 2x8GBUnknownBench 54%, 2,890 samples	15x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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