MSI MS-7996

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 72.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	82.2% 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	89.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Micro-Star H110 Gaming Codex 3 (MS-B913)
Motherboard	MSI MS-7996 (all builds)
Memory	4.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170724
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Mar 18 '18 at 09:56
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7400-$110 234,266 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	72.6% Very good	Memory 78.4 1-Core 102 2-Core 201 72% 127 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 391 52% 388 Pts	64-Core 378 23% 378 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.2% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 106 Parallax 104 85% 105 fps	MRender 90.8 Gravity 92.6 Splatting 95.2 76% 92.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend TS256GSSD230S 256GB 3,887 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 157GB free (System drive) Firmware: Q0518F3S Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 25 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 12 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 59 (A3) Unknown 100 100 7 (A4) Unknown 100 100 1729 (A5) Unknown 100 100 7 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 3 (94) Unknown 100 100 1601 (95) Unknown 100 100 64 (96) Unknown 100 100 0 (97) Unknown 100 100 47 (9F) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1500 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 49 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 486 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 11761 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8309 (F5) Unknown 100 100 31122	89.9% Excellent	Read 514 Write 457 Mixed 491 109% 487 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 82.2 4K Mixed 22.6 115% 44.2 MB/s	DQ Read 30.8 DQ Write 302 DQ Mixed 22 60% 118 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 114%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 739GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 178 1833 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 28 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 14 (C2) HDA temperature 117 101 26 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	99.2% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 173 Mixed 163 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 1.28 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 0.35 146% 1.51 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston MSI24D4U7S8MH-8 1x8GB 475 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	36% Below average	MC Read 14.4 MC Write 11.4 MC Mixed 11 35% 12.3 GB/s	SC Read 8.2 SC Write 11.4 SC Mixed 10.6 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 83.5 48% 83.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 45%

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

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Gaming 54%

Yacht

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 43%

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Motherboard: MSI MS-7996

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	364x
Core i3-7100Intel $70Bench 57%, 79,299 samples	44x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	4x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	114x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	71x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	62x

SSD
TS128GSSD420K 128GBTranscendBench 77%, 490 samples	104x
TS256GSSD230S 256GBTranscendBench 89%, 3,887 samples	43x
SSD370 128GBTranscend $74Bench 71%, 4,687 samples	11x

RAM
MSI24D4U7S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 71%, 1,134 samples	77x
MSI24D4U7S8MB-8 1x8GBKingstonBench 38%, 668 samples	69x
MSI24D4U7S8MH-8 1x8GBKingstonBench 39%, 475 samples	50x

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Value: 115% - Outstanding

Total price: $242

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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