MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 54% Yacht	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including moderate gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 58.3%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	67.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	50.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

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System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 10 '18 at 22:23
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
AMD FX-8350-$99 115,734 User benchmarks, average bench 57% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	58.3% Above average	SC Int 82.8 SC Float 73.7 SC Mixed 80.4 63% 79 Pts	QC Int 292 QC Float 241 QC Mixed 280 62% 271 Pts	MC Int 506 MC Float 442 MC Mixed 507 73% 485 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 63%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390-$304 29,749 User benchmarks, average bench 66% MSI(1462 2015) CLim: 1040 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.2.1 Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	67.4% Good	Lighting 209 Reflection 161 Parallax 264 71% 211 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 164 Splatting 176 65% 156 fps
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 70%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$45 21,612 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 77GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing below expectations (34^th 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 100 100 199 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 41 (64) Unknown 100 100 500784 (65) Unknown 100 100 51520 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 295 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 634 (B7) Unknown 100 100 2 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 100 128850198553 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 940 (EA) Unknown 100 100 301 (F1) Unknown 100 100 799 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1827 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	50.8% Above average	Read 445 Write 188 Mixed 215 62% 283 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 25.5 4K Mixed 8.84 58% 18.7 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 58 DQ Mixed 25.5 41% 80.5 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 64%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$58 192,828 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 93 49946512 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1912 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 310232731 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5645 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1868 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1109 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 54 437518361 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 87 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4331 (C2) HDA temperature 25 46 47244640281 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 49117246002601 (F1) Unknown 100 253 61670159155 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1094650795974	102% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 176 Mixed 163 130% 173 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.23 78% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 107%
Kingston DataTraveler R3.0 G2 USB 3.0 32GB-$22 595 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 3GB free, PID 16a2 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	14% Very poor	Read 29.2 Write 24.2 Mixed 19.8 30% 24.4 MB/s	4K Read 6.82 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.5 74% 2.75 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 14% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2133 C9 2x8GB 865 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	45.3% Average	MC Read 17.3 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 15.7 46% 16 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 12.8 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 69 58% 69 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 81%

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Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) - $102

CPU
FX-8350AMD $99Bench 57%, 115,734 samples	5,956x
FX-6300AMD $72Bench 48%, 85,082 samples	2,982x
FX-8320AMD $106Bench 51%, 45,938 samples	1,731x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $200Bench 40%, 123,465 samples	1,334x
GTX 970Nvidia $370Bench 64%, 247,983 samples	1,234x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $300Bench 72%, 250,718 samples	1,143x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $90Bench 94%, 282,195 samples	1,089x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $65Bench 48%, 119,806 samples	760x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 95%, 184,154 samples	412x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 58%, 30,386 samples	962x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 50%, 14,868 samples	540x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 52%, 16,885 samples	285x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $90
Intel Core i7-7700K $290	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $300	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $175	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $183	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $75	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $957	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $193	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12