MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 63% Destroyer	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 60.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	99.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	43% 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 (47%). 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	13.8 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 23 '17 at 17:53
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	47%

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PC Performing as expected (49^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 3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	60.5% Good	Memory 85.5 1-Core 22.9 2-Core 103 45% 70.6 Pts	4-Core 193 8-Core 372 34% 283 Pts	64-Core 376 23% 376 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 60.5% 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 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99.2% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 121 Parallax 144 98% 128 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 143 Splatting 114 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$30 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 74GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1558 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 445 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2478256685959 (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 69 (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 1292796428589 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2891 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8473 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4440 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11706 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	43% Average	Read 495 Write 39.9 Mixed 200 53% 245 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 40.5 4K Mixed 5.14 55% 21.1 MB/s	DQ Read 144 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 3.19 35% 83.1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 43% 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 above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4244937 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -91508573201315 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1760 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 202 (B1) Unknown 0 0 93 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 47 64427589658 (C2) HDA temperature 26 47 64427589658 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4244937 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4244937 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4244937 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25629 (EA) Unknown 0 0 22874 (F1) Unknown 0 0 22874 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9546 (F4) Unknown 93 93 196673761	58.5% Above average	Read 490 Write 122 Mixed 182 57% 265 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 55.5 4K Mixed 14.2 88% 32 MB/s	DQ Read 152 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 44.8 58% 105 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 58.5% 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 above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5475 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 721 (A5) Unknown 100 100 928693 (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 77 23 214764879895 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 790 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 273 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7323844323 (F2) Unknown 100 100 15106943764	42.5% Average	Read 435 Write 175 Mixed 235 62% 282 MB/s	4K Read 17.4 4K Write 13.2 4K Mixed 8.7 45% 13.1 MB/s	DQ Read 38.5 DQ Write 18.1 DQ Mixed 9.85 12% 22.2 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 42.5% 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 above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 198 197 3937 (03) Spinup time 171 168 4425 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1177 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3056 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 728 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1075 (C2) HDA temperature 121 95 26 (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	65.4% Good	Read 111 Write 116 Mixed 107 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 1.06 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.41 132% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 65.4% 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 below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	45.1% Average	MC Read 18.9 MC Write 14 MC Mixed 15.9 46% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 8.7 SC Write 7.6 SC Mixed 10.8 26% 9.03 GB/s	Latency 71.6 56% 71.6 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 45.1% 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