MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 79.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	10.7% 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	79.4% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 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.

System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors, 1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 08 '19 at 16:00
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1285 v4 21 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	Memory 89.1 1-Core 114 2-Core 231 82% 145 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 520 57% 453 Pts	64-Core 597 37% 597 Pts
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel Iris Pro Graphics P6300 FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? MSI(1462 7916) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4835 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	10.7% Very poor	Lighting 11.9 Reflection 13 Parallax 15.1 10% 13.3 fps	MRender 13.8 Gravity 11.5 Splatting 19.4 13% 14.9 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 10.7% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 SusWrite @10s intervals: 108 111 108 107 106 113 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	79.4% Very good	Read 418 Write 136 Mixed 191 SusWrite 109 47% 213 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 97.8 4K Mixed 42.1 159% 58.3 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 120 102% 149 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 82%
Hitachi HUS724030ALA6400 3TB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1TB free Firmware: MF8O SusWrite @10s intervals: 135 134 134 132 134 134 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	65.9% Good	Read 95.5 Write 95.2 Mixed 50.8 SusWrite 134 68% 93.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.7 152% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 93%
Hitachi HUS724030ALA6400 3TB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 578GB free Firmware: MF8O SusWrite @10s intervals: 115 114 113 114 116 115 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	70.1% Very good	Read 130 Write 130 Mixed 67.5 SusWrite 115 81% 110 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.8 175% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 93%
Hitachi HUA722020ALA330 2TB 7,666 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 601GB free Firmware: JKAO SusWrite @10s intervals: 82 80 79 79 81 81 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	53.5% Above average	Read 106 Write 101 Mixed 59 SusWrite 80.4 64% 86.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.9 161% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 70%
Hitachi HUS724020ALA6400 2TB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 365GB free Firmware: MF6O SusWrite @10s intervals: 98 95 97 93 97 93 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	62.8% Good	Read 123 Write 122 Mixed 66.3 SusWrite 95.3 75% 102 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.8 173% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9965432-068.A00LF 4x4GB 47 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	MC Read 38.2 MC Write 20.9 MC Mixed 20 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 17.7 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 68.3 58% 68.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 89%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) - $203

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	849x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	166x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	99x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	194x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	87x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	76x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	58x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $70Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	47x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	41x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	38x

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