MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 69.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	66.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 01 '16 at 20:01
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Memory 90.1 1-Core 72.5 2-Core 144 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 268 8-Core 446 44% 357 Pts	64-Core 426 26% 426 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 3685) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7570 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	66.8% Good	Lighting 85.9 Reflection 84 Parallax 74.1 70% 81.3 fps	MRender 81.8 Gravity 75.2 Splatting 67.7 60% 74.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 903GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 58003768 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1966 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 13502382877 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13373 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1944 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 17180131361 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 59 35 55534750793769 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 505 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27257 (C2) HDA temperature 41 65 90194313257 (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 -68856915676240 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -61636456361594 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -137034094703902	89.9% Excellent	Read 146 Write 168 Mixed 160 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.22 86% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 112%
Samsung HD503HI 500GB-$41 8,190 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 347GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 85 84 4725 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7765 (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 11584 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2490 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 18 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 41 257698496549 (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 35 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 7873
Poor: 18% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 27,024 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	49.6% Average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 17.5 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 10.9 SC Write 8.7 SC Mixed 13.7 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 67.1 60% 67.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 63%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	960x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	412x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	264x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	166x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	149x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	141x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	87x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	140x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	47x
1866 CL10 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 54%, 7,244 samples	34x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $289

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $177	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