MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 63.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	97.4% 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	92.7% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 02 '17 at 07:10
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1275 v3 384 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	63.8% Good	Memory 94.4 1-Core 87.9 2-Core 116 64% 99.3 Pts	4-Core 180 8-Core 578 41% 379 Pts	64-Core 581 36% 581 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	97.4% Outstanding	Lighting 126 Reflection 151 Parallax 139 103% 139 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 92.9 Splatting 109 87% 106 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 763GB free Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^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 11 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 267 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 145 (A3) Unknown 100 100 54 (A4) Unknown 100 100 5690 (A5) Unknown 100 100 13 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 2 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1112 (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 51581 (F2) Unknown 100 100 65434 (F5) Unknown 100 100 91040	93.6% Outstanding	Read 487 Write 421 Mixed 446 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 94.7 4K Mixed 35.7 136% 52.3 MB/s	DQ Read 26.3 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 20.1 54% 107 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 105%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 405GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q 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 99 99 2770 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 444 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 60 44 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15317158898	92.7% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 404 Mixed 412 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 84.9 4K Mixed 25.3 139% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 41.2 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 24.9 57% 109 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 131%
WD Gold 8TB (128MB Cache 2016)-$103 288 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 7.5TB free Firmware: 01.01H01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 116 (03) Spinup time 155 155 30094197133 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 12 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 86 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 12 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 168 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 168 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 146030264352 (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	97% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 157 Mixed 160 125% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 4.04 4K Mixed 0.47 164% 1.8 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 115%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 839GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8091 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1246 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6367 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1082 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 47 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1198 (C2) HDA temperature 115 97 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 20 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	74% Very good	Read 140 Write 117 Mixed 99.1 89% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.3 101% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 85%
WD WD1500HLFS-01G6U1 150GB 7,915 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 79GB free Firmware: 04.04V02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 183 1758 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2514 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20430 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2340 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 332 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2526 (C2) HDA temperature 110 89 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	60.9% Good	Read 106 Write 106 Mixed 96.1 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.61 152% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 22,320 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	58.8% Above average	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22 MC Mixed 18.5 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 5.7 SC Write 20.6 SC Mixed 18.1 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 58.8 68% 58.8 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 58.8% 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	3,396x
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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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