MSI 970A-G46 (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 62% Destroyer


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 a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	104% 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	69.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970A-G46 (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	29.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130716
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 05 '18 at 21:47
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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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
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.4% Very good	Memory 94 1-Core 70.8 2-Core 148 64% 104 Pts	4-Core 287 8-Core 456 46% 372 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$245 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 143 Parallax 133 111% 137 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 127 Splatting 105 93% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 74GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 809 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 114 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 59 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 37 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4195750642	69.4% Good	Read 396 Write 325 Mixed 281 74% 334 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 47 4K Mixed 22 105% 34.4 MB/s	DQ Read 41.1 DQ Write 67.3 DQ Mixed 23.9 27% 44.1 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 124%
WD WD10EURX 1TB-$25 53,598 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 732GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 135 3883 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1959 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12950 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1542 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1866 (C2) HDA temperature 117 105 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 100 253 0	71.9% Very good	Read 121 Write 129 Mixed 82.9 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.21 95% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GB 2,608 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	54.9% Above average	MC Read 23.4 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 19.9 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 11.5 SC Write 9.3 SC Mixed 14.3 34% 11.7 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 88%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 (MS-7693) - $88

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	100x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	82x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	47x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	27x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	21x
R9 270XAMD $199Bench 27%, 77,943 samples	19x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	11x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	9x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	46x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	39x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	16x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $376

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) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16