MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 33% Sail boat	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 79.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	36.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	78.7% 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 8 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-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	9.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 03 '17 at 20:09
Run Duration	250 Seconds
Run User	NAM-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	79.3% Very good	Memory 88 1-Core 113 2-Core 226 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 381 8-Core 583 60% 482 Pts	64-Core 576 36% 576 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Gigabyte(1458 36AD) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	36.1% Below average	Lighting 47.6 Reflection 44.1 Parallax 38.8 39% 43.5 fps	MRender 37.8 Gravity 39.7 Splatting 36.2 31% 37.9 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX200 240GB-$36 36,559 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 999 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 87 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 32 (A3) Unknown 100 100 264 (94) Unknown 100 100 125512 (95) Unknown 100 100 1712 (96) Unknown 100 100 1533 (97) Unknown 100 100 1696 (A4) Unknown 100 100 32766 (A5) Unknown 100 100 75 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 25 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 48555296161826 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 217686 (F2) Unknown 100 100 289675 (F5) Unknown 100 100 193524 (F6) Unknown 100 100 251024 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	78.7% Very good	Read 480 Write 246 Mixed 266 73% 331 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 65.6 4K Mixed 25 117% 41.2 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 31.8 74% 155 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 91%
Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB-$40 2,820 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 55GB free Firmware: 5.6. Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 79519682 (05) Reallocated sector count 97 97 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 65197603563823 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 304 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 162 (B1) Unknown 0 0 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 43 56 64428179499 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 79519682 (C4) Reallocation count 97 97 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 79519682 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 79519682 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5735 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4671 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4671 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7212	60.1% Good	Read 338 Write 113 Mixed 183 46% 211 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 14.1 119% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 142 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 36.7 52% 97.3 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 80%
WD Se 3TB (2013)-$67 926 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2TB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 135 12108 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 55 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7070 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 37 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 41 (C2) HDA temperature 100 86 52 (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	85.5% Excellent	Read 139 Write 159 Mixed 164 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.68 4K Mixed 0.31 118% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 99%
WD Elements 2TB 35,768 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 1.5TB free, PID 1021 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	20.8% Poor	Read 40.3 Write 41.5 Mixed 38.3 52% 40 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.15 71% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 20.8% Great: 44%
WDC WD20 EARX-00PASB0 2TB 24 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 496GB free, PID 2336 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	16.9% Very poor	Read 35.5 Write 30 Mixed 33.3 42% 32.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.17 64% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 16.9% Great: 18%
WD My Book 1140 2TB 10,094 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 26GB free, PID 1140 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	39.9% Below average	Read 103 Write 92.8 Mixed 87.4 119% 94.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.13 57% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown Samsung M378B5173QH0-CK0 0420 1352 SUPERTALENT02 16GB 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	55% Above average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 16.5 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 19.2 SC Mixed 17.9 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 69.5 58% 69.5 ns

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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) $35	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