MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 94.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	68% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 16 '16 at 21:28
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	COL-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing as expected (55^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 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 128 2-Core 250 90% 158 Pts	4-Core 495 8-Core 708 75% 601 Pts	64-Core 712 44% 712 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 71% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZNTE256HMHP-000L2 256GB 1,123 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 238GB free Firmware: EXT26L0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3651 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 88 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 98 98 13 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4389 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 40 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 199 199 3 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (EC) Unknown 99 99 9 (ED) Unknown 99 99 13 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0	80% Excellent	Read 496 Write 259 Mixed 321 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 98.1 4K Mixed 13.9 112% 46.6 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 39.5 96% 201 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 91%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 146GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5974 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1349 (A5) Unknown 100 100 463945532489 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 31 (A8) Unknown 100 100 28 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 312 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 43 184684838946 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5592083596566 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2821 (EA) Unknown 100 100 11437 (F1) Unknown 253 253 8625 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8593 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	68% Good	Read 453 Write 323 Mixed 324 81% 367 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 75.1 4K Mixed 11.4 99% 38.7 MB/s	DQ Read 26.9 DQ Write 61.2 DQ Mixed 10.3 18% 32.8 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 101%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 880GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 67 44 10144 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5129 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20026 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6062 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1445535 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 13 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 61 167504510998 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 2 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 2 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 62 62 389934	68.7% Good	Read 100 Write 139 Mixed 93.8 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.37 98% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 72%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 423GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 166917080 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1398 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 4484919160 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8325 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1392 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BE) vendor-specific 75 56 420741145 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 232 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 39929 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 60129542169 (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 -39706972644484 (F1) Unknown 100 253 32702232726 (F2) Unknown 100 253 42461412915	54.5% Above average	Read 91.2 Write 98.6 Mixed 109 75% 99.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.25 88% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 113%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 30GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 143 143 21491745041 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1676 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 126 126 32 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6825 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1668 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4324 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4324 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 176094642203 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	52.4% Above average	Read 86.2 Write 96.2 Mixed 90.4 69% 90.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.21 92% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 52.4% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 7,967 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 22.3 74% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 20.2 SC Write 24 SC Mixed 26.5 67% 23.6 GB/s	Latency 50.2 80% 50.2 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 79%

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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 $94Bench 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 $178	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