MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	132% 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	98.8% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	5.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141224
Uptime	9.6 Days
Run Date	Jan 20 '18 at 19:39
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	79.9% Very good	Memory 93.7 1-Core 110 2-Core 229 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 378 8-Core 409 52% 394 Pts	64-Core 375 23% 375 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 186 Reflection 194 Parallax 194 152% 191 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 178 Splatting 126 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$70 18,195 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4727 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 869 (B1) Unknown 98 98 72 (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 58 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 22 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9847424499	98.8% Outstanding	Read 524 Write 446 Mixed 464 106% 478 MB/s	4K Read 37.7 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 23.1 146% 57.4 MB/s	DQ Read 37.6 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 23.3 66% 132 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 119%
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 15GB free Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th 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 11259 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2083 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 93 93 227 (AE) Unknown 100 100 544 (B5) Unknown 100 100 10295082550943 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 91 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 93 93 7 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	71% Very good	Read 492 Write 192 Mixed 279 70% 321 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 7.54 108% 47 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 7.43 62% 148 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 72%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 2GB free Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1603 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 330 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 67 62 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3184667403	117% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 405 Mixed 375 95% 429 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 47.6 193% 71 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 101 130% 235 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 551GB free Firmware: SD37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 124879690 (03) Spinup time 90 87 0 (04) Start/Stop count 81 81 19843 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 60 43 283527780639 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 44882 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 389 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1578 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 618485121175 (BD) vendor-specific 60 60 40 (BE) vendor-specific 53 32 50243350888495 (C2) HDA temperature 47 68 55834574895 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 20 124879690 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	52.1% Above average	Read 90.7 Write 90.8 Mixed 85.5 67% 89 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.46 110% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 70%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 320GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 173 170 4341 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7185 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14889 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2425 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 143 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7041 (C2) HDA temperature 99 95 48 (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 2	58.9% Above average	Read 112 Write 92.9 Mixed 103 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.32 98% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32.9% Below average	MC Read 10.3 MC Write 11 MC Mixed 9.4 29% 10.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.2 SC Write 10.5 SC Mixed 11 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 60.5 66% 60.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 32.9% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

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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	829x
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 $400Bench 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	46x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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	38x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16