MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 31% Sail boat	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	24.2% 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	52.3% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 19 '17 at 22:43
Run Duration	254 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (84^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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	Memory 98 1-Core 139 2-Core 275 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 525 8-Core 550 71% 537 Pts	64-Core 550 34% 550 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.2.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	24.2% Poor	Lighting 5.73 Reflection 10.7 Parallax 5.44 5% 7.3 fps	MRender 59.2 Gravity 91.1 Splatting 75.8 62% 75.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 24.2% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 6797999 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 38465727120784 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2302 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1343 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6797999 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6797999 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6797999 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11614 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9234 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9234 (F2) Unknown 0 0 16292	52.3% Above average	Read 191 Write 95.4 Mixed 113 29% 133 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 14.8 118% 49.5 MB/s	DQ Read 124 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 29.4 46% 87.1 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 61%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 2TB-$78 30,011 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 7.5TB free Firmware: MK7OA840 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 90 (03) Spinup time 126 126 38687212016 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 540 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 98 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 123 123 31 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 17492 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 199 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 621 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 621 (C2) HDA temperature 240 240 210454183961 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 98 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 40% Great: 82%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 2TB-$78 30,011 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 7.5TB free Firmware: MK7OA840 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 87 (03) Spinup time 123 123 42982572540 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 532 (05) Reallocated sector count 1 1 2005 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 133 133 27 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 37280 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 197 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 588 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 588 (C2) HDA temperature 253 253 210454052887 (C4) Reallocation count 1 1 3487 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 40% Great: 82%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 2TB-$78 30,011 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 7.5TB free Firmware: MK7OA840 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 126 126 116 (03) Spinup time 127 127 38686884332 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 534 (05) Reallocated sector count 1 1 1071 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 135 135 26 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 27894 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 201 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 616 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 616 (C2) HDA temperature 250 250 214749085720 (C4) Reallocation count 1 1 19796 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 40% Great: 82%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 2TB-$78 30,011 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 7.5TB free Firmware: MK7OA840 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 89 (03) Spinup time 123 123 42982703609 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 557 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 123 123 31 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 33511 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 222 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1005 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1005 (C2) HDA temperature 240 240 240518955033 (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 200 200 0
Poor: 40% Great: 82%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 2TB-$78 30,011 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1TB free Firmware: MK7OA840 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 88 (03) Spinup time 129 129 38686294500 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1998 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 123 123 31 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 22743 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1099 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2023 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2023 (C2) HDA temperature 240 240 197569282073 (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 200 200 0	74.6% Very good	Read 132 Write 128 Mixed 106 91% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.42 101% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 82%
PNY USB 3.0 FD 64GB 878 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 56GB free, PID 00d2 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	34.6% Below average	Read 146 Write 42 Mixed 35.2 73% 74.3 MB/s	4K Read 4.92 4K Write 1.03 4K Mixed 0.89 83% 2.28 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 34.6% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	MC Read 32.4 MC Write 33.9 MC Mixed 28.6 90% 31.6 GB/s	SC Read 20.8 SC Write 25.6 SC Mixed 26.9 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 46.2 86% 46.2 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 88%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	3,397x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,671x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	458x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,247x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	561x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	407x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	414x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	306x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	209x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	379x
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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16