MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 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 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 75%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	119% 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	82.8% 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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	19.8 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 12 '17 at 14:17
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	35%

PC Performing below expectations (38^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	75% Very good	Memory 81 1-Core 112 2-Core 204 75% 132 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 497 56% 438 Pts	64-Core 516 32% 516 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6390) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	119% Outstanding	Lighting 159 Reflection 194 Parallax 187 130% 180 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 168 Splatting 122 112% 138 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 134GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 389 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 25 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 64 61 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 359842144	108% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 409 Mixed 415 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 78.3 4K Mixed 44.5 164% 55.3 MB/s	DQ Read 337 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 114 130% 225 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
Crucial M500 240GB-$73 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 102GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12293 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 755 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 95 95 177 (AE) Unknown 100 100 57 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 55 193273528361 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 95 95 5 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 31410244005 (F7) Unknown 100 100 996275213 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1831785324	82.8% Excellent	Read 495 Write 268 Mixed 348 82% 370 MB/s	4K Read 24.8 4K Write 83.8 4K Mixed 27.4 117% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 286 DQ Write 219 DQ Mixed 51.5 93% 185 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 91%
Crucial MX100 256GB-$116 55,768 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12600 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 793 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 25 (AE) Unknown 100 100 52 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 48 223339085867 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 5869122866 (F7) Unknown 100 100 184024338 (F8) Unknown 100 100 177752756	88.3% Excellent	Read 517 Write 323 Mixed 395 91% 412 MB/s	4K Read 28.3 4K Write 81 4K Mixed 31.3 126% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 188 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 48.3 83% 159 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 97%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 83GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 138 138 74 (03) Spinup time 129 129 21494169894 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 7955 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 119 119 35 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 25233 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 965 (C0) Power-off retract count 93 93 8997 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 8997 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 210454118441 (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	56% Above average	Read 99.6 Write 95.6 Mixed 111 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.14 56% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 108%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 8GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 159 157 7008 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7444 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 16923 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 845 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 65 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 156 156 133376 (C2) HDA temperature 113 105 37 (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	53% Above average	Read 89.9 Write 94.6 Mixed 68.7 63% 84.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.15 68% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G 0215 CMX8GX3M2B1600C9 KHX1600C10D3/8G 0215 CMX8GX3M2B1600C9 24GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	46.6% Average	MC Read 16.2 MC Write 17.6 MC Mixed 14 46% 15.9 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 14.2 41% 14.4 GB/s	Latency 78.7 51% 78.7 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 46.6% Great: 51%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) - $203

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	834x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	164x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	96x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	87x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	75x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	58x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	45x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	39x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	37x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $851

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) $31	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