MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	30.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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

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

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	8 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 14:38
Run Duration	220 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	66.8% Good	Memory 87.3 1-Core 72.8 2-Core 135 61% 98.3 Pts	4-Core 251 8-Core 417 41% 334 Pts	64-Core 409 25% 409 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% Asus(1043 0464) CLim: 1120 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.12.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	30.8% Below average	Lighting 39.1 Reflection 35 Parallax 46.9 32% 40.3 fps	MRender 30.9 Gravity 32.7 Splatting 39.4 29% 34.4 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 30.8% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3767 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 55 (B1) Unknown 98 98 91 (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 65 50 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28481934369
Poor: 71% Great: 124%
SanDisk Extreme II 120GB-$130 2,462 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 30GB free Firmware: R1311 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 253 100 17439 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1060 (A6) Unknown 100 100 321 (A7) Unknown 100 100 15 (A8) Unknown 100 100 558 (A9) Unknown 100 100 171 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 421 (AE) Unknown 100 100 136 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 149 639951306780 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3587 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 54255 (F1) Unknown 253 253 20972 (F2) Unknown 253 253 21751 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	66.2% Good	Read 417 Write 293 Mixed 338 78% 349 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 51.1 4K Mixed 19.2 87% 31.2 MB/s	DQ Read 127 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 54.5 60% 101 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 101%
Toshiba P300 1TB-$45 318,836 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 901GB free Firmware: MS2OA8J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 143 143 67 (03) Spinup time 126 126 12896895158 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 423 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 110 110 36 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 448 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 29 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 423 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 423 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 167505166369 (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 200 200 0	112% Outstanding	Read 201 Write 191 Mixed 178 143% 190 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.2 101% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 107%
Toshiba P300 1TB-$45 318,836 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 203GB free Firmware: MS2OA8J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 72 (03) Spinup time 127 127 12896764085 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 473 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 118 118 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 601 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 55 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 473 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 473 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 206159675426 (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 200 200 0	73.7% Very good	Read 131 Write 126 Mixed 116 94% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.23 100% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 107%
MB0500GCEHE 500GB 675 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 96GB free Firmware: HPG1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 11 (03) Spinup time 174 170 2300 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9445 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 22792 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1492 (B4) Unknown 200 200 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 64 47 36 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 155 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12635 (C2) HDA temperature 107 90 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (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	60.6% Good	Read 123 Write 88.2 Mixed 102 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.66 4K Mixed 0.36 110% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 79%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 16GB-$8 19,339 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 9GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	45.2% Average	Read 133 Write 78.2 Mixed 97.8 124% 103 MB/s	4K Read 5.42 4K Write 2.47 4K Mixed 1.71 162% 3.2 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Team-Elite-1600 4x4GB 310 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	46.9% Average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 16.9 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 9.8 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 12 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 70.2 57% 70.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 84%

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Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 69%

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Workstation 19%

Surfboard

Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	960x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	412x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	264x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	166x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	149x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	141x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	87x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 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	34x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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