MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 30% Raft	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 24.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	86.7% 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	66.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151221
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	May 30 '18 at 23:22
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Extreme
AMD FX-8300-$130 28,311 User benchmarks, average bench 43% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 1.9 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	24.2% Poor	1-Core 35.4 2-Core 71.1 25% 53.2 Pts	4-Core 136 8-Core 226 23% 181 Pts	64-Core 227 15% 227 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 24.2% Great: 52%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-56-$395 38,367 User benchmarks, average bench 85% MSI(1462 3681) CLim: 1662 MHz, MLim: 925 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.3.4 Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Lighting 121 Reflection 143 Parallax 545 32% 270 fps	MRender 184 Gravity 342 Splatting 294 90% 273 fps
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 95%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$89 450,220 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 218GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10702 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 926 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (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 66 48 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 216 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28849715314	66.2% Good	Read 482 Write 370 Mixed 398 93% 417 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 32.6 4K Mixed 16 76% 24.7 MB/s	DQ Read 30.9 DQ Write 40.5 DQ Mixed 30.3 24% 33.9 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 135%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$79 93,559 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 168 3733 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4923 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13482 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1538 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 370 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 153 153 142432 (C2) HDA temperature 119 93 28 (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	75.8% Very good	Read 135 Write 129 Mixed 122 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.27 98% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/4G KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/4G 16GB 945 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 800, 800, 800, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	39.9% Below average	MC Read 16.7 MC Write 11.8 MC Mixed 15.3 42% 14.6 GB/s	SC Read 7 SC Write 6.3 SC Mixed 8.3 21% 7.2 GB/s	Latency 83.4 48% 83.4 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 64%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds.

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Gaming 47%

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Desktop 51%

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Workstation 40%

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Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $75Bench 49%, 235,023 samples	10,985x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 43%, 173,667 samples	4,971x
FX-8320AMD $163Bench 45%, 89,801 samples	2,953x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $270Bench 57%, 746,202 samples	2,215x
GTX 960Nvidia $145Bench 33%, 245,708 samples	2,153x
GTX 970Nvidia $428Bench 52%, 518,594 samples	2,084x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $53Bench 106%, 546,937 samples	1,570x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $74Bench 54%, 217,593 samples	1,113x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $89Bench 113%, 450,220 samples	712x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 57,763 samples	1,666x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 50%, 30,672 samples	809x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 56%, 47,897 samples	509x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-9600K $205	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Crucial MX500 250GB $45
Intel Core i5-9400F $150	Nvidia GTX 1650S (Super) $160	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i7-9700K $375	Nvidia RTX 2060 $349	Samsung 850 Pro 512GB $249

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $80	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $63	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $653	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $14