MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 27% Raft	Desktop 50% Yacht	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 40.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	64.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	48.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 22 '17 at 23:56
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	52%

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PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 1.55 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	40.7% Average	Memory 67.5 1-Core 23.2 2-Core 44.1 33% 44.9 Pts	4-Core 77.6 8-Core 112 12% 94.8 Pts	64-Core 120 7% 120 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2602 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	64.1% Good	Lighting 55.7 Reflection 74.6 Parallax 140 45% 90.1 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 142 Splatting 112 101% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$30 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 75GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1551 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 444 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2478256554885 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 25 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 68 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 24 326417514541 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1288501461292 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2889 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8457 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4433 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11647 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	48.2% Average	Read 472 Write 225 Mixed 328 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 16.5 4K Write 31 4K Mixed 4.33 47% 17.3 MB/s	DQ Read 58.3 DQ Write 53.7 DQ Mixed 3.2 17% 38.4 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 86%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 26GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3543569 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 3676492012629 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1759 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 201 (B1) Unknown 0 0 93 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 47 64427589660 (C2) HDA temperature 28 47 64427589660 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3543569 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3543569 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3543569 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25626 (EA) Unknown 0 0 22872 (F1) Unknown 0 0 22872 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9539 (F4) Unknown 93 93 196673761	49.1% Average	Read 475 Write 124 Mixed 200 58% 267 MB/s	4K Read 19.6 4K Write 42.5 4K Mixed 12.6 68% 24.9 MB/s	DQ Read 47.9 DQ Write 61.2 DQ Mixed 32.1 30% 47.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 73%
Sandisk S064G 63GB 2,842 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 12GB free Firmware: 3.2.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5464 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 720 (A5) Unknown 100 100 928586 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 237 (AE) Unknown 100 100 126 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 26 214764879898 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 790 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 273 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7320115831 (F2) Unknown 100 100 15103228178	40.1% Average	Read 423 Write 182 Mixed 251 63% 285 MB/s	4K Read 13.4 4K Write 13.1 4K Mixed 7.18 36% 11.2 MB/s	DQ Read 38.4 DQ Write 18.4 DQ Mixed 10.1 12% 22.3 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 47%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 555GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 198 197 3937 (03) Spinup time 179 168 4008 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1170 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3045 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 727 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 100 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1069 (C2) HDA temperature 112 95 35 (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 200 197 1	72.9% Very good	Read 138 Write 116 Mixed 118 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.47 123% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/8G 16GB 2,146 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 933, 800 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	29.6% Poor	MC Read 10.9 MC Write 8.9 MC Mixed 12.1 30% 10.6 GB/s	SC Read 5.5 SC Write 4.8 SC Mixed 7.5 17% 5.93 GB/s	Latency 107 37% 107 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 29.6% Great: 63%

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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	961x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	413x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	264x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	167x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	149x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	142x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	87x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 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	35x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $289

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $288	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16