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MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

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Benchmarks - missing CPU, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Graphics	70.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	118% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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

8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150213
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 19 '15 at 08:14
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing way above expectations (88^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 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 133 2-Core 267 91% 200 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 741 72% 592 Pts	64-Core 753 47% 753 Pts
Poor: 67% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2986) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5582 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	Lighting 91.2 Reflection 91.8 Parallax 80.1 74% 87.7 fps	MRender 83.2 Gravity 80.8 Splatting 73.3 64% 79.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB-$199 9,250 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 412GB free (System drive) Firmware: X212 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 479 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 507 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 81 (A8) Unknown 100 100 30 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1711 (AB) Unknown 100 100 2 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 127 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 37 158914773024 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 10 (E8) Unknown 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 841 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1370 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1956 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	118% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 499 Mixed 484 112% 499 MB/s	4K Read 38.4 4K Write 140 4K Mixed 32.1 173% 70.1 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 339 DQ Mixed 63.7 127% 257 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 114%
SanDisk Extreme II 240GB-$110 3,009 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 19GB free Firmware: R131 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1017 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 873 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 26 (A8) Unknown 100 100 43 (A9) Unknown 100 100 405 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 11 (AE) Unknown 100 100 262 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 105 450972483614 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 36 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3023 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2286 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2546 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	116% Outstanding	Read 484 Write 489 Mixed 451 106% 475 MB/s	4K Read 38.1 4K Write 148 4K Mixed 31.2 176% 72.3 MB/s	DQ Read 366 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 67.9 122% 243 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 109%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 512GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 174 2191 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 508 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 495 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 485 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 118 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 389 (C2) HDA temperature 112 104 31 (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	94.5% Outstanding	Read 163 Write 166 Mixed 134 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 1.19 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 0.15 112% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 108%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 211GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 2216 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 508 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 495 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 487 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 122 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 385 (C2) HDA temperature 111 103 32 (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	90.9% Outstanding	Read 136 Write 181 Mixed 136 113% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 2.89 4K Mixed 0.37 111% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 108%

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Typical Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) Builds (Compare 1,340 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming

Gaming 42%

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Desktop

Desktop 84%

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Workstation

Workstation 35%

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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

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Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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

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