MSI Z97 PC Mate(MS-7850)

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	67.5% 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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7850
Motherboard	MSI Z97 PC Mate(MS-7850) (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 06 '17 at 04:42
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	41%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 125 2-Core 220 85% 147 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 148 48% 301 Pts	64-Core 291 18% 291 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1115 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.6.2 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	63.6% Good	Lighting 79.3 Reflection 58.3 Parallax 110 65% 82.6 fps	MRender 61.4 Gravity 83 Splatting 78.4 62% 74.3 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
AMD Radeon R3 240GB 4,257 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 181GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0422C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st 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 1974 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 667 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 173 (A3) Unknown 100 100 47 (A4) Unknown 100 100 33866 (A5) Unknown 100 100 69 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 17 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 19 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 266 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 205670 (F2) Unknown 100 100 237327 (F5) Unknown 100 100 135464	67.5% Good	Read 486 Write 258 Mixed 266 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 60.1 4K Mixed 13.4 93% 34.3 MB/s	DQ Read 179 DQ Write 65.5 DQ Mixed 37.9 50% 94 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 90%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 156GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 46912339 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 64175401352587 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2813 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1412 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 59 77313277981 (C2) HDA temperature 29 59 77313277981 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 46912339 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 46912339 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 46912339 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 38654705665 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12342 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14012 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14012 (F2) Unknown 0 0 26140	67.4% Good	Read 486 Write 150 Mixed 208 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 14.9 109% 47.7 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 23 57% 119 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 85%
Corsair Force GS 240GB-$261 4,179 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 106GB free Firmware: 5.24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 23912994 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 -3264175140002 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 696 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 303 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 52 81607786527 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 23912994 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 23912994 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 23912994 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1761 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1878 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1878 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8939	85.5% Excellent	Read 463 Write 262 Mixed 301 76% 342 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 22.2 137% 55 MB/s	DQ Read 268 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 82.2 107% 192 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 93%
Seagate ST500LM012 HN-M500MBB 500GB 47,588 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 288GB free Firmware: 2BA30010 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 83 3586 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 800 (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 5367 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1141 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 62 180389871643 (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 100 100 854 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 7 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 80018	40.9% Average	Read 71.6 Write 70.8 Mixed 84.5 57% 75.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.28 82% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GB 1,053 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38.7% Below average	MC Read 11.7 MC Write 13.2 MC Mixed 11.6 35% 12.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 11.1 35% 12.2 GB/s	Latency 54.5 73% 54.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 79%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC Mate(MS-7850) - $100

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,107x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	808x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	472x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	536x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	300x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	259x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	169x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	130x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	106x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	166x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	119x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	72x

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Total price: $748

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16