MSI Z97M-G43(MS-7924)

Performance Results


Gaming 35% Jet ski	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	37.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7924
Motherboard	MSI Z97M-G43(MS-7924) (all builds)
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160215
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 22 '16 at 16:39
Run Duration	208 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 116 2-Core 226 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 432 58% 431 Pts	64-Core 422 26% 422 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 770-$279 116,895 User benchmarks, average bench 34% MSI(1462 2825) 2GB CLim: 1241 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 375.86 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	37.2% Below average	Lighting 45.2 Reflection 40.5 Parallax 53.5 37% 46.4 fps	MRender 54.8 Gravity 49.9 Splatting 38 38% 47.6 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZ7TD256HAFV-000L7 256GB 6,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 168GB free Firmware: DXT02L5Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1214 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1024 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 97 97 30 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 6240 (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 71 52 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 18 (E9) Unknown 199 199 557110 (EA) Unknown 99 99 14 (EB) Unknown 99 99 65 (EC) Unknown 99 99 10 (ED) Unknown 99 99 30 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0	70.4% Very good	Read 500 Write 252 Mixed 226 72% 326 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 90 4K Mixed 10.2 97% 41.4 MB/s	DQ Read 155 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 23 58% 122 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 80%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7058 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3051 (B1) Unknown 93 93 82 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 51 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 18 (EB) Unknown 99 99 427 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16557194579
Poor: 63% Great: 108%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$60 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 549GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 164 161 8791 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3977 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6553 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 407 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 223 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 161 161 117466 (C2) HDA temperature 120 102 32 (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	40.3% Average	Read 67 Write 73.3 Mixed 57 49% 65.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.18 74% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 40.3% Great: 67%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 409GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (03) Spinup time 71 71 9540 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7450 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 12113 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5744 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 1 1 150 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 24 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 60 370212886 (C2) HDA temperature 74 59 437321754 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1310521 (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 100 99 1410 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	51% Above average	Read 90.4 Write 87.2 Mixed 63.8 60% 80.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.3 84% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 58%
Samsung HD321KJ 320GB-$42 12,070 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 3GB free Firmware: CP100-12 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5632 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14773 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16795 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6074 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 283206 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 722365 (BC) Unknown 100 100 33 (BE) vendor-specific 73 55 27 (C2) HDA temperature 157 103 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 283206 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 90 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 97 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	35.8% Below average	Read 56 Write 68.6 Mixed 54.2 45% 59.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.35 82% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 35.8% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905471-085.A00LF 2x8GB 23 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	61.9% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 18.3 61% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 21 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 62%

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Gaming 38%

Jet ski

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 30%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI Z97M-G43(MS-7924) - $110

CPU
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	84x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	76x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	61x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	42x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	22x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	21x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $51Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	23x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	12x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 27,462 samples	9x

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Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $463

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16