MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 43% Speed boat	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (27th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 73 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 relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 37%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	38.7% 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	46.7% 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.

Very high background CPU (53%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit renk
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150811
Uptime	6.8 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '18 at 16:01
Run Duration	243 Seconds
Run User	TUR-User
Background CPU	53%

PC Performing below expectations (27^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, turbo 2.35 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	37% Below average	Memory 41.3 1-Core 19.8 2-Core 55.7 25% 38.9 Pts	4-Core 174 8-Core 459 36% 317 Pts	64-Core 528 33% 528 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 37% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.65 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	38.7% Below average	Lighting 36.2 Reflection 70.9 Parallax 57.1 30% 54.7 fps	MRender 77.4 Gravity 70.4 Splatting 62 56% 69.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 84GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 7629 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1054 (A5) Unknown 100 100 206206075530 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 30 (A8) Unknown 100 100 79 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 15 (AE) Unknown 100 100 151 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 47 201864577054 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3337239921417 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3367 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6699 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4675 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7276 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	45.5% Average	Read 448 Write 156 Mixed 238 61% 281 MB/s	4K Read 14.6 4K Write 19.5 4K Mixed 10.7 46% 14.9 MB/s	DQ Read 133 DQ Write 53.7 DQ Mixed 14.9 32% 67.3 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 101%
Transcend SSD370 128GB-$74 4,687 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1114H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd 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 1524 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1691 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 45 (A3) Unknown 100 100 24 (A4) Unknown 100 100 160982 (A5) Unknown 100 100 207 (A6) Unknown 100 100 102 (A7) Unknown 100 100 158 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 95 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 426 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 72 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4062 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 383081 (F2) Unknown 100 100 298198 (F5) Unknown 100 100 643928	46.7% Average	Read 468 Write 146 Mixed 223 61% 279 MB/s	4K Read 14.1 4K Write 30.5 4K Mixed 9.87 50% 18.2 MB/s	DQ Read 100 DQ Write 90.3 DQ Mixed 44.8 47% 78.5 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 83%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 814GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 193 (03) Spinup time 171 170 2408 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4469 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7509 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1722 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 100 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4368 (C2) HDA temperature 107 102 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 13 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 12 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 13	103% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 167 Mixed 159 130% 173 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.32 120% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 536GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 146752266 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 10205 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 4322209450 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10068 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3906 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 131074 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 50 638910502 (C2) HDA temperature 38 50 68719476774 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 21 146752266 (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 -76776835360412 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1276212312 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1806067951	49.1% Average	Read 79.6 Write 91.7 Mixed 82.8 64% 84.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.34 84% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 68%
WD Elements 1TB 51,914 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 254GB free, PID 10b8 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	28.7% Poor	Read 74.3 Write 54.8 Mixed 61.1 78% 63.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.23 75% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 28.7% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G3D1608DT2TXOB 2x8GB 555 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	26% Poor	MC Read 9.7 MC Write 10.6 MC Mixed 8.8 28% 9.7 GB/s	SC Read 5.3 SC Write 4.3 SC Mixed 7 16% 5.53 GB/s	Latency 196 20% 196 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 26% Great: 74%

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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	3,379x
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