MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 81%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	111% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	47.8% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141223
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Apr 30 '17 at 09:57
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st 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-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	81% Excellent	Memory 83.4 1-Core 115 2-Core 232 80% 143 Pts	4-Core 456 8-Core 442 60% 449 Pts	64-Core 433 27% 433 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3367) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 148 Reflection 151 Parallax 128 121% 142 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 140 Splatting 110 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 31GB free Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4741485 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 131752416778084 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1392 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 34 (B1) Unknown 0 0 232 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 45 1009320263708 (C2) HDA temperature 28 45 1009320263708 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4741485 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4741485 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4741485 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 21474836480 (E9) Unknown 0 0 89200 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5669 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5669 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4084	63.3% Good	Read 449 Write 159 Mixed 224 61% 277 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 98.9 4K Mixed 14.5 98% 43.8 MB/s	DQ Read 142 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 38.2 64% 121 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 85%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 16035532 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -68161130981423 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1392 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 29 (B1) Unknown 0 0 231 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 47 1005025427486 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 1005025427486 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16035532 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16035532 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16035532 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 79 79 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 96251 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10088 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10088 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11503	47.8% Average	Read 373 Write 94.8 Mixed 135 44% 201 MB/s	4K Read 17.5 4K Write 94.7 4K Mixed 6.43 85% 39.5 MB/s	DQ Read 58.1 DQ Write 95.2 DQ Mixed 19.4 31% 57.6 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 73%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 226GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 169 167 2516 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2096 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6056 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1388 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2130 (C2) HDA temperature 118 107 25 (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	71.7% Very good	Read 136 Write 114 Mixed 126 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.28 83% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333 C9 2x8GB 1,530 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	27.9% Poor	MC Read 9 MC Write 9.4 MC Mixed 7.8 25% 8.73 GB/s	SC Read 8 SC Write 9.6 SC Mixed 8.7 25% 8.77 GB/s	Latency 74.5 54% 74.5 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 27.9% Great: 53%

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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	3,384x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,665x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	457x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,245x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	559x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	406x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	414x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	306x
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	206x

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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $45	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