MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 37% Jet ski	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 33.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	10.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Very high background CPU (56%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	5.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20140529
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 29 '17 at 20:29
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	56%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon II X3 450-$80 4,468 User benchmarks, average bench 44% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 3 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	33.7% Below average	Memory 54.7 1-Core 31.4 2-Core 61.3 32% 49.1 Pts	4-Core 72.4 8-Core 89.9 10% 81.2 Pts	64-Core 99.4 6% 99.4 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 33.7% Great: 51%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI HD 4870 22,563 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Asus(1043 031A) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.93.7.0 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	10.9% Very poor	Lighting 13.7 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 9.75 11% 11.7 fps	MRender 9.71 Gravity 9.27 Splatting 16.7 10% 11.9 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 10.9% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung HD502IJ 500GB-$40 25,285 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 407GB free Firmware: 1AA01114 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 85 85 5310 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 4992 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 11554 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3919 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2284 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 61 555352097 (C2) HDA temperature 65 61 605683747 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 12024 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	37.7% Below average	Read 73.8 Write 57.6 Mixed 69.2 50% 66.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.21 63% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 59%
Seagate ST3250824AS 250GB-$148 4,794 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 211GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 80 186705383 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7108 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 47 45 24868165928710 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14085 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5982 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 54 49 824311854 (C2) HDA temperature 46 51 73014444078 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 49 33509905 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	33.7% Below average	Read 61.3 Write 55.8 Mixed 61.1 45% 59.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.38 87% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 33.7% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 27,024 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	24% Poor	MC Read 9.8 MC Write 6.2 MC Mixed 10.2 25% 8.73 GB/s	SC Read 4.9 SC Write 3.9 SC Mixed 5.4 14% 4.73 GB/s	Latency 144 28% 144 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 24% Great: 63%

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Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	960x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	412x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	264x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	166x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	149x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	141x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	87x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	85x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	140x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	47x
1866 CL10 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 54%, 7,244 samples	34x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $289

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