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MSI Z97 PC Mate(MS-7850)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 71.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	19.7% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
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 (44%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7850
Motherboard	MSI Z97 PC Mate(MS-7850) (all builds)
Memory	20.5 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 23 '16 at 03:05
Run Duration	322 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	44%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$56 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	71.8% Very good	Memory 76.1 1-Core 30.6 2-Core 143 49% 83.3 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 387 52% 389 Pts	64-Core 407 25% 407 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 82%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$30 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 189GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 4150 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 132 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1065207333691 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 99 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 50 43 244813135922 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1181117251859 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 320 (EA) Unknown 100 100 7949 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1879 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3022 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	19.7% Very poor	Read 303 Write 79.9 Mixed 237 46% 207 MB/s	4K Read 5.03 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.74 10% 2.73 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 19.7% Great: 86%
Wl4000gs A6472 4TB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 615 (03) Spinup time 190 179 7466 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 299 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11320 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 291 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 259 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 151 151 147701 (C2) HDA temperature 122 107 30 (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 200 194 185 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	75.2% Very good	Read 168 Write 94.2 Mixed 95.8 89% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.24 71% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 75%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 3TB 2,213 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2.5TB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	32% Below average	Read 84.7 Write 26.9 Mixed 45.8 39% 52.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.14 4K Write 0.65 4K Mixed 0.09 28% 0.29 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 32% Great: 105%
Seagate ST32000542AS 2TB-$100 19,960 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2TB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 86503496 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 614 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 89 60 918058408 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 41936 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 588 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098500 (BD) vendor-specific 44 44 56 (BE) vendor-specific 72 45 471531548 (C2) HDA temperature 28 55 68719476764 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 43 21 86503496 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 115 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 107971182896776 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3624368583 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2570773517	60% Above average	Read 107 Write 101 Mixed 101 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.47 111% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 61%
Seagate ST1500LM 006 HN-M151RAD 1.5TB 80 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 447GB free Firmware: 2BC1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 22 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 88 88 3834 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 361 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14991 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 373 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 197569740827 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 28 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 59 59 416325	55.9% Above average	Read 94.7 Write 100 Mixed 101 74% 98.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.31 82% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 0118 8GBH2X04E99927-15 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 0118 8GBH2X04E99927-15 24GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	47.3% Average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 16.6 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 9 SC Mixed 12 26% 9.2 GB/s	Latency 88 45% 88 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 47.3% Great: 77%

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Typical Z97 PC Mate(MS-7850) Builds (Compare 4,047 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC Mate(MS-7850) - $100

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,152x
Core i5-4690KIntel $56Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	829x
Core i7-4790Intel $115Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	488x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	560x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	310x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	264x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	175x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	133x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	108x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	171x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	122x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	72x

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