MSI Z97-G55 SLI (MS-7921)

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Destroyer


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81% 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	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	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-7921
Motherboard	MSI Z97-G55 SLI (MS-7921) (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160219
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 05:24
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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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 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 (96^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Memory 90.9 1-Core 123 2-Core 238 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 656 68% 549 Pts	64-Core 664 41% 664 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 110 Parallax 105 82% 105 fps	MRender 96.5 Gravity 93.6 Splatting 97.1 78% 95.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D 1TB-$85 16,039 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 554GB free Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1835023 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 57 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 577 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 37 158915559456 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 12884901891 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 364 (EA) Unknown 100 100 385 (F1) Unknown 253 253 382 (F2) Unknown 253 253 74 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	89.3% Excellent	Read 504 Write 349 Mixed 344 88% 399 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 66.1 4K Mixed 23.7 122% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 50.1 95% 195 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 121%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 557GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2275 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7903 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12354 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1523 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7890 (C2) HDA temperature 108 88 35 (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	84.5% Excellent	Read 173 Write 121 Mixed 135 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.23 92% 1 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 108%
Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB-$102 29,256 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 266GB free Firmware: 3.CHN Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5091 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 273297393 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 29007 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3402 (B8) Unknown 100 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 41 639500326 (C2) HDA temperature 38 59 73014444070 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 62 52 119328552 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	31% Below average	Read 49 Write 58.9 Mixed 50.7 40% 52.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.26 79% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 31% Great: 43%
WD WD3000GLFS-01F8U0 300GB 3,689 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: 03.03V01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 194 194 286185 (03) Spinup time 196 195 3200 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3491 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21568 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3462 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 116 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3528 (C2) HDA temperature 109 91 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	44.7% Average	Read 76.8 Write 78.5 Mixed 70.2 56% 75.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.62 139% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 2,161 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	57.9% Above average	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 21 MC Mixed 16.9 56% 19.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 18.9 53% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 71%

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Gaming 47%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 40%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI (MS-7921)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	66x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	52x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x
GTX 1660-TiNvidia $143Bench 76%, 318,562 samples	15x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	9x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	7x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	11x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	9x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $560

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $40	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