MSI Z97-G43 (MS-7816)

Performance Results


Gaming 120% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 103% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 91.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	133% 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	88.8% 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7816
Motherboard	MSI Z97-G43 (MS-7816) (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160218
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 15 '18 at 14:22
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.6% Outstanding	Memory 94.6 1-Core 142 2-Core 280 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 477 8-Core 751 76% 614 Pts	64-Core 756 47% 756 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 87%

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: 2012 MHz, MLim: 3100 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Lighting 186 Reflection 204 Parallax 185 151% 191 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 183 Splatting 133 121% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 366GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6752 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1390 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 63 50 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 308 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24260032811	116% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 412 Mixed 410 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 48.7 184% 64.7 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 129 150% 259 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 133%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11943 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3131 (B1) Unknown 79 79 253 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 59 47 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 49 (EB) Unknown 99 99 713 (F1) Unknown 99 99 101817055556	88.8% Excellent	Read 507 Write 352 Mixed 353 90% 404 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 77 4K Mixed 24.6 139% 48.5 MB/s	DQ Read 45.2 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 21.8 52% 101 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 118%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB-$60 30,974 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 287GB free Firmware: 1AA01117 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 85 85 5460 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 1782 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10906 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 64675 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 408 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 13 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 60 488374301 (C2) HDA temperature 69 54 521928735 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 55964 (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 100 100 5 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	43.8% Average	Read 77.2 Write 75.1 Mixed 79.9 58% 77.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.37 93% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 43.8% Great: 60%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 82GB free Firmware: KC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 1304 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3253 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 8601482374 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1862 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1681 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BC) Unknown 100 82 187 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 51 572522530 (C2) HDA temperature 34 49 55834574882 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 36 1304 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 65 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -101554501711863 (F1) Unknown 100 253 388540413 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2710578756	58.7% Above average	Read 96.5 Write 108 Mixed 90 74% 98.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.53 99% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5584-003.A00LF 99U5584-010.A00LF 99U5584-003.A00LF 99U5584-010.A00LF 16GB 23 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	65% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 23.7 MC Mixed 18.3 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 22.3 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 58.2 69% 58.2 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 65%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97-G43 (MS-7816)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	230x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	205x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	88x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	143x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	58x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	46x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	42x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	39x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	35x

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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
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) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16