MSI Z97-G43 (MS-7816)

Performance Results


Gaming 33% Sail boat	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 29% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 88.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	32.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	66.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7816
Motherboard	MSI Z97-G43 (MS-7816) (all builds)
Memory	15.3 GB free of 20 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160218
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 13 '17 at 16:14
Run Duration	254 Seconds
Run User	RUS-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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 4.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 132 2-Core 268 91% 164 Pts	4-Core 453 8-Core 715 72% 584 Pts	64-Core 720 45% 720 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 670-$435 47,610 User benchmarks, average bench 28% Gigabyte(1458 3542) 2GB CLim: 1267 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	32.5% Below average	Lighting 38.6 Reflection 35.5 Parallax 50.5 32% 41.6 fps	MRender 48.1 Gravity 45 Splatting 35.8 34% 43 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 32.5% Great: 31%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 169GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 13199575 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 95013266526053 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1433 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 485 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 53 73017917472 (C2) HDA temperature 32 53 73017917472 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13199575 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13199575 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13199575 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14084 (EA) Unknown 0 0 17446 (F1) Unknown 0 0 17446 (F2) Unknown 0 0 34383	66.7% Good	Read 480 Write 239 Mixed 294 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 93.3 4K Mixed 15.6 107% 44.5 MB/s	DQ Read 25.5 DQ Write 63.7 DQ Mixed 10.8 18% 33.3 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 85%
Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB-$136 7,908 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 936GB free Firmware: SD1A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 81187410 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 380 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 58 56 55845041378 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7760 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 5 (0C) Power cycle count 100 37 574 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 50 639107110 (C2) HDA temperature 38 50 77309411366 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 41 29 81187410 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4	68% Good	Read 115 Write 121 Mixed 94.5 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 3.52 4K Mixed 0.83 201% 1.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 59%
Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB-$136 7,908 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 936GB free Firmware: SD1A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 97 186227735 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 841 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 21509467173 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3988 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 22 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 853 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 83 83 17 (BC) Unknown 100 93 38655295557 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 46 655818791 (C2) HDA temperature 39 53 64424509479 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 32 186227735 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 31	66.6% Good	Read 113 Write 118 Mixed 85.9 79% 106 MB/s	4K Read 1.07 4K Write 3.44 4K Mixed 0.73 190% 1.75 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 59%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 2TB-$105 4,536 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 255GB free Firmware: 1AN10003 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4940 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 62 61 11809 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5428 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12346 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5822 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 19543 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 52 206159413282 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 76 76 12817 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 5920 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 51293	35.8% Below average	Read 60.8 Write 63.8 Mixed 53.2 44% 59.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.35 84% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 35.8% Great: 59%
Seagate ST3750630AS 750GB-$207 2,150 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 117GB free Firmware: DSA1 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	35.3% Below average	Read 60.8 Write 62 Mixed 51.6 44% 58.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.44 109% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 35.3% Great: 60%
SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 64GB-$23 12,481 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 11GB free, PID 5583 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	22.1% Poor	Read 97.7 Write 16.3 Mixed 23.4 43% 45.8 MB/s	4K Read 4.38 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.62 75% 2.03 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 22.1% Great: 39%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B1G73EB0-CK0 Kingston 9905474-023.A00LF M378B1G73EB0-CK0 Kingston 9905474-023.A00LF 20GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1600, 1333, 1600, 1333 MHz 8192, 2048, 8192, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	60.7% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 17.4 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 21.4 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 61.7 65% 61.7 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 60%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97-G43 (MS-7816)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	228x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	204x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	88x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	141x
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	26x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	41x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	39x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	35x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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