MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918)

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	88.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Run History

System	MSI MS-7918
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 01 '18 at 05:27
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 93.1 1-Core 123 2-Core 242 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 560 65% 507 Pts	64-Core 642 40% 642 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 146 Parallax 127 117% 139 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 135 Splatting 105 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 352GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 10023 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1463 (B1) Unknown 98 98 27 (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 68 55 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 638 (F1) Unknown 99 99 34970062698	88.9% Excellent	Read 502 Write 406 Mixed 415 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 87.7 4K Mixed 23.5 140% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 40.5 DQ Write 95.4 DQ Mixed 21.3 30% 52.4 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 134%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 160GB free Firmware: X41320RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 933 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 287 (A5) Unknown 100 100 8585308 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 46 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 469 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 67 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 11 (C2) HDA temperature 71 66 283469217821 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 111670984732 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1024 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1895 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1597 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1677 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.9% Very good	Read 485 Write 345 Mixed 331 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 20.2 4K Write 30.1 4K Mixed 20.7 73% 23.7 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 44.4 94% 195 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 108%
WD Blue 2.5" 320GB (2010)-$18 39,749 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 87GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 141 1808 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3309 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6682 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3261 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 130 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 30440 (C2) HDA temperature 117 84 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	28.6% Poor	Read 51.1 Write 48.7 Mixed 48.8 37% 49.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 0.26 4K Mixed 0.21 44% 0.28 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 28.6% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GBH2X04E99927-15 2x8GB 1,313 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	59.8% Above average	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.4 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 18.7 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 61.9 65% 61.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	844x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	616x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	307x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	440x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	206x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	175x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	67x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	153x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	98x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	48x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16