MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	11.1% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	78% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141106
Uptime	13.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 23 '18 at 00:19
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th 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 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	76% Very good	Memory 84.1 1-Core 106 2-Core 213 76% 134 Pts	4-Core 393 8-Core 392 52% 392 Pts	64-Core 418 26% 418 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5770 37,602 User benchmarks, average bench 10% AMD(1002 E147) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	11.1% Very poor	Lighting 14.7 Reflection 10.9 Parallax 12.7 12% 12.8 fps	MRender 10.3 Gravity 11.1 Splatting 12.2 9% 11.2 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 11.1% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10948 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1370 (B1) Unknown 92 92 167 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 57 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 141 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23951262504	78% Very good	Read 490 Write 366 Mixed 412 94% 423 MB/s	4K Read 31.9 4K Write 72.1 4K Mixed 20.8 113% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 35.7 DQ Write 89.1 DQ Mixed 20.7 28% 48.5 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 1072 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2311 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 24053703 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12442 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1343 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 21475164166 (BD) vendor-specific 81 81 19 (BE) vendor-specific 68 47 538443808 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 149 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2376 (C2) HDA temperature 32 53 90194313248 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 5 1072 (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 22853520993885 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4178009446 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3432932990	71.9% Very good	Read 128 Write 124 Mixed 103 88% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.68 118% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 75%
Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00 80GB-$76 1,745 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 51GB free Firmware: SB2OC70P Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 34359738368 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2409 (05) Reallocated sector count 94 94 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 13886 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2397 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 276 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 17188 (C2) HDA temperature 220 220 249109086233 (C4) Reallocation count 97 97 552 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 1 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	24.6% Poor	Read 41.3 Write 44.4 Mixed 40.4 32% 42 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.27 72% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 24.6% Great: 25%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 73,650 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	45.5% Average	MC Read 15.8 MC Write 16.2 MC Mixed 14.4 44% 15.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 13.9 39% 13.7 GB/s	Latency 73.2 55% 73.2 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 62%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

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	3,383x
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	1,244x
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 $109Bench 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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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