MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918)

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 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 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	115% 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	31.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7918
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) (all builds)
Memory	4.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141224
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '17 at 04:51
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing below expectations (30^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 way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 93.6 1-Core 125 2-Core 224 85% 147 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 584 63% 502 Pts	64-Core 553 34% 553 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.3% 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 6593) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	115% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 187 Parallax 165 123% 168 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 159 Splatting 123 110% 136 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk S128G 126GB 21,984 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 2GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.2.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4200 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1680 (A5) Unknown 100 100 889101 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 227 (AE) Unknown 100 100 79 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 33 171798954017 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 756 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 579 (F1) Unknown 100 100 14473905872 (F2) Unknown 100 100 22008959837	31.5% Below average	Read 353 Write 152 Mixed 163 49% 223 MB/s	4K Read 8.96 4K Write 10.9 4K Mixed 5.74 27% 8.55 MB/s	DQ Read 1.04 DQ Write 2.64 DQ Mixed 3.87 2% 2.52 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 31.5% Great: 56%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$22 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 122GB free Firmware: 0011LVM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 96 56218905 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7123 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 250716955 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -61310658139997 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5255 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 362 (BC) Unknown 100 98 485 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 46 488046620 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 250 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 65 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 48 48 104513 (C2) HDA temperature 28 54 47244640284 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 40 56218905 (C4) Reallocation count 92 92 32074815773806 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	24.3% Poor	Read 45.2 Write 39.6 Mixed 39 31% 41.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.13 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.16 40% 0.4 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 24.3% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 9,994 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31.9% Below average	MC Read 10.3 MC Write 10.7 MC Mixed 9.1 29% 10 GB/s	SC Read 9.1 SC Write 9.8 SC Mixed 8.8 26% 9.23 GB/s	Latency 60.9 66% 60.9 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 31.9% Great: 62%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) Builds (Compare 2,585 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	851x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	617x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	309x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	441x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	207x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	175x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	67x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	153x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	99x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	48x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16