MSI Z97 MPOWER (MS-7915)

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 43% Speed boat


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 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	55.1% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	79.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7915
Motherboard	MSI Z97 MPOWER (MS-7915) (all builds)
Memory	2 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160223
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	May 16 '17 at 19:04
Run Duration	230 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	6%

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 i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Memory 97.4 1-Core 115 2-Core 229 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 468 62% 464 Pts	64-Core 464 29% 464 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	55.1% Above average	Lighting 69.3 Reflection 67.3 Parallax 60.8 56% 65.8 fps	MRender 72.6 Gravity 64 Splatting 58.2 52% 64.9 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: 520ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 37844660 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -16149077025198 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7176 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 5188 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 41 63 38658834473 (C2) HDA temperature 41 63 38658834473 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 37844660 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 37844660 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 37844660 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25278 (EA) Unknown 0 0 61643 (F1) Unknown 0 0 61643 (F2) Unknown 0 0 24212	79.4% Very good	Read 478 Write 225 Mixed 225 68% 309 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 20 122% 50.2 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 55.9 94% 184 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 85%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8466 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9156 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14723 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4319 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1092 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8063 (C2) HDA temperature 109 92 43 (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	73.8% Very good	Read 138 Write 119 Mixed 115 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 0.54 158% 1.44 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 670GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 93 44541565 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6127 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 59 57 133170427591 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8212 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3461 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 166 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8591048726 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 44 73704210472 (C2) HDA temperature 40 56 51539607592 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 27 18 44541565 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 136588549964280 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1435993423 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3685206118	60.5% Good	Read 106 Write 104 Mixed 104 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.47 106% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 68%
Seagate ST2000VM003-1CT164 2TB 16,094 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 662GB free Firmware: SC23 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 120147968 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18497 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 43640812 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10233 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1323 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065668 (BD) vendor-specific 69 69 31 (BE) vendor-specific 59 41 1044366753833 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 176 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18753 (C2) HDA temperature 41 59 42949673001 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	78.2% Very good	Read 150 Write 123 Mixed 107 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 0.47 4K Mixed 0.18 51% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 100%
Clover CM321HI 320GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 69GB free Firmware: 2AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 187 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 426 (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 3349 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 84 84 16574 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3345 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 73 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 54 197569216542 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 16 (DF) Load/unload retry count 84 84 16574 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 153249	50.9% Above average	Read 86.3 Write 91 Mixed 84.9 66% 87.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.31 85% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 53%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$65 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 67GB free Firmware: 12.01B02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 151 5100 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10174 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7580 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8938 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 254 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10176 (C2) HDA temperature 101 86 46 (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	34.4% Below average	Read 52.7 Write 66.6 Mixed 62.4 46% 60.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.43 115% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 34.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 2400G 2OZ 2x4GB 126 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	80% Very good	MC Read 29.4 MC Write 30.1 MC Mixed 25.1 81% 28.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 23.4 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 48.7 82% 48.7 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 80%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97 MPOWER (MS-7915) - $229

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	96x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	20x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	16x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	14x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	12x

SSD
Crucial_CT120M500SSD4 120GBBench 67%, 178 samples	7x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	6x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	7x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 6,123 samples	5x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	4x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $777

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