MSI H97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918)

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	124% 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	80.7% 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.

System	MSI MS-7918
Motherboard	MSI H97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 28 '18 at 22:16
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3-$209 19,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Memory 91.6 1-Core 98.1 2-Core 185 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 332 8-Core 561 54% 447 Pts	64-Core 562 35% 562 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2802 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 171 Reflection 187 Parallax 186 139% 181 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 174 Splatting 121 112% 138 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 12001 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2114 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4295724182209 (A6) Unknown 100 100 96 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 151 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 120 (AE) Unknown 100 100 96 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 53 227634380840 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6623242229760 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 27696 (EA) Unknown 100 100 115795 (F1) Unknown 253 253 88568 (F2) Unknown 253 253 66373 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	80.7% Excellent	Read 445 Write 324 Mixed 310 80% 360 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 67.5 4K Mixed 19.9 108% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 312 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 52.3 94% 189 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 101%
WD Red 5TB (2014)-$185 1,098 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 196 187 9175 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1309 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4898 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 168 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2762 (C2) HDA temperature 114 94 38 (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	89.2% Excellent	Read 185 Write 126 Mixed 126 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.51 4K Mixed 0.29 112% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 98%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G 1315 BLS4G3D169DS3.16FE KHX1600C10D3/8G 1315 BLS4G3D169DS3.16FE 16GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	58.8% Above average	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 19.2 49% 17.2 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 58.8% Great: 59%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI H97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) - $220

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	304x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	267x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	223x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	282x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	132x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	121x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	78x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	30x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	29x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	69x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	45x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	41x

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Total price: $868

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	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