MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	56.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 8 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.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8
BIOS Date	20150811
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Mar 15 '17 at 08:23
Run Duration	202 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing below expectations (38^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 93.8 1-Core 118 2-Core 220 83% 144 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 582 62% 494 Pts	64-Core 587 36% 587 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 770-$279 116,895 User benchmarks, average bench 34% Gigabyte(1458 3606) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1293 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 376.33 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 32% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 43GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5350 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 627 (A5) Unknown 100 100 21483487335 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A8) Unknown 100 100 12 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 47 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 45 193274708005 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 210457329724 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 665 (EA) Unknown 100 100 908 (F1) Unknown 253 253 792 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1928 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	67.4% Good	Read 424 Write 176 Mixed 243 62% 281 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 76.6 4K Mixed 19.6 117% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 35.6 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 46.2 58% 98.1 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 101%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 25892717 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 132181913507084 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 635 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 72 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 37 73016868896 (C2) HDA temperature 32 37 73016868896 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 25892717 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 25892717 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 25892717 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 68719476737 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11762 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10825 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10825 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5839 (F4) Unknown 97 97 6094941	56.2% Above average	Read 413 Write 123 Mixed 166 51% 234 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 6.67 105% 45.7 MB/s	DQ Read 34.2 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 13 27% 51.6 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 523GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 54967830 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8686 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 23 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 130790197 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 28322 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2825 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 68 322127463489 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 54 43 52329840686 (C2) HDA temperature 46 57 51539607598 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 15 54967830 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1959 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -2851858247393 (F1) Unknown 100 253 942347275 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3927836736	50% Above average	Read 96.4 Write 78 Mixed 91.4 67% 88.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.36 84% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 403GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 61183248 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3773 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 156827437 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 14896 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1986 (B7) Unknown 95 95 5 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065669 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 55 43 224145309741 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 81 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 82 82 37399 (C2) HDA temperature 45 57 55834574893 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 74358768805386 (F1) Unknown 100 253 56891725085 (F2) Unknown 100 253 44786577601	94.6% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 163 Mixed 146 119% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.27 79% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 95GB free Firmware: CC1H 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 119 99 206979410 (03) Spinup time 100 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8432 (05) Reallocated sector count 61 61 1632 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 94215850 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 34615 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2791 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 80 80 20 (BE) vendor-specific 45 36 25294003699767 (C2) HDA temperature 55 64 55834574903 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 29 23 206979410 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 56594784089004 (F1) Unknown 100 253 26853879 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4144366992	37.1% Below average	Read 60.7 Write 68.3 Mixed 79.6 53% 69.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.29 71% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 37.1% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	33.6% Below average	MC Read 10.4 MC Write 11.6 MC Mixed 9.5 30% 10.5 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 10.6 SC Mixed 10.8 30% 10.5 GB/s	Latency 60.4 66% 60.4 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 33.6% Great: 72%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	3,379x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,662x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	457x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,240x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	559x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	405x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	414x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	305x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	207x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	376x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	248x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	205x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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) $30	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