MSI 970A-G46 (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	83.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	68.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970A-G46 (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130315
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 27 '18 at 18:27
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.9% Very good	Memory 91.9 1-Core 75.4 2-Core 153 65% 107 Pts	4-Core 282 8-Core 457 45% 370 Pts	64-Core 458 28% 458 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (80^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.2% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 112 Parallax 110 86% 110 fps	MRender 94.9 Gravity 98.6 Splatting 90.4 77% 94.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 52GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 17 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 6 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 64 50 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1869746155	67.8% Good	Read 380 Write 319 Mixed 293 74% 331 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 45.5 4K Mixed 22.7 102% 33.6 MB/s	DQ Read 38.6 DQ Write 66.6 DQ Mixed 23.4 26% 42.9 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 48GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3843 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 493 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 62 41 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14091068026	68.5% Good	Read 384 Write 319 Mixed 282 73% 328 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 45.3 4K Mixed 23.2 104% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 42.1 DQ Write 66.2 DQ Mixed 24.6 27% 44.3 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 134%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 616GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 173 4116 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2464 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15491 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1744 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 156 156 133789 (C2) HDA temperature 115 95 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	80.6% Excellent	Read 135 Write 146 Mixed 92.5 92% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.55 4K Mixed 0.25 108% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 84%
StoreJet Transcend 1TB 14,954 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 408GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	17.1% Very poor	Read 30.5 Write 30.1 Mixed 30.2 39% 30.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.33 80% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 17.1% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 18,444 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31.7% Below average	MC Read 10.6 MC Write 10.3 MC Mixed 9.1 29% 10 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 7.8 SC Mixed 10.6 27% 9.53 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 71%

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 (MS-7693) - $88

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	99x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	82x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	47x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	27x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
R9 270XAMD $199Bench 27%, 77,943 samples	19x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	11x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	9x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	46x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	39x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	16x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $376

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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