MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 81.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	64.1% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit väriä
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150528
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 23 '18 at 11:57
Run Duration	261 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 way above expectations (95^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	Memory 90.6 1-Core 108 2-Core 215 79% 138 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 415 56% 416 Pts	64-Core 424 26% 424 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 106 Parallax 99.4 83% 102 fps	MRender 90.8 Gravity 94 Splatting 88.4 74% 91.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend TS256GSSD360S 256GB 563 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 30GB free Firmware: 20151027 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^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 62 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 300 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 161 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1 (A3) Unknown 100 100 29 (A4) Unknown 100 100 5260 (A5) Unknown 100 100 5 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 2 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 37 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 6433 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 14970 (F2) Unknown 100 100 80048 (F5) Unknown 100 100 19504	77.1% Very good	Read 443 Write 334 Mixed 386 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 4.31 104% 45.6 MB/s	DQ Read 191 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 28.4 81% 170 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 82%
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 39336243 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -24481313585775 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 379 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 64 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 44 49 81607589932 (C2) HDA temperature 44 49 81607589932 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 39336243 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 39336243 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 39336243 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 103079215105 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3289 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2659 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2659 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2167 (F4) Unknown 100 100 3604501	64.1% Good	Read 438 Write 122 Mixed 171 53% 244 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 97.5 4K Mixed 18.9 115% 47.5 MB/s	DQ Read 116 DQ Write 133 DQ Mixed 39.1 53% 96 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 75%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 730GB free Firmware: 1AA01108 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 77 77 7760 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 1730 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 9 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10141 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5804 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1303 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 60 521076767 (C2) HDA temperature 58 54 705626154 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 132704 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	60.2% Good	Read 95.3 Write 114 Mixed 106 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.46 4K Mixed 0.44 116% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 62%
Seagate ST3250820AS 250GB-$60 16,391 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 214GB free Firmware: 3.CHL Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3810 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 549179249 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19024 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3592 (B8) Unknown 100 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 44 43 941097016 (C2) HDA temperature 56 57 85899345976 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 62 59 23966466 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2	44% Average	Read 79.6 Write 73.6 Mixed 73.5 57% 75.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.34 98% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 44% Great: 44%
Seagate ST3250824AS 250GB-$148 4,794 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 55GB free Firmware: 3.ADH Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 84 77940503 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3147 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 30443882810 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 14962 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2603 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 49 45 857079859 (C2) HDA temperature 51 55 64424509491 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 47 55978930 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	21.8% Poor	Read 41 Write 35 Mixed 40.7 29% 38.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.24 61% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 21.8% Great: 37%
WD WD2500JD-00HBB0 250GB-$140 3,296 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 42GB free Firmware: 08.02D08 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 194 0 (03) Spinup time 125 123 6266 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3482 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16270 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2898 (C2) HDA temperature 95 85 55 (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 200 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	26.3% Poor	Read 45.8 Write 45.4 Mixed 33.6 31% 41.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.27 72% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 26.3% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x4GB 3,428 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	60.3% Good	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 22.5 MC Mixed 19.2 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 18.6 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 66.4 60% 66.4 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 63%

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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	3,383x
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 $178	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