MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 135% UFO	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 113% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 96.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	140% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	259% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 13 '17 at 12:46
Run Duration	607 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.9 1-Core 143 2-Core 283 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 510 8-Core 733 78% 621 Pts	64-Core 741 46% 741 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	140% Outstanding	Lighting 199 Reflection 221 Parallax 216 162% 212 fps	MRender 138 Gravity 196 Splatting 134 126% 156 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 140% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 328GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	259% Outstanding	Read 1,966 Write 1,417 Mixed 1,246 342% 1,543 MB/s	4K Read 60.4 4K Write 141 4K Mixed 57.1 239% 86.2 MB/s	DQ Read 558 DQ Write 410 DQ Mixed 215 234% 394 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 259% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 165GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 22119 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 651 (B1) Unknown 91 91 105 (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 67 57 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 250 (F1) Unknown 99 99 57215140137	97.4% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 349 Mixed 356 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 44.1 4K Write 77.4 4K Mixed 27.2 143% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 83.6 123% 233 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 118%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 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 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 67 (03) Spinup time 135 135 21503672730 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 115 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 805 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 83 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 152 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 152 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 180389675044 (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	104% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 184 Mixed 173 134% 178 MB/s	4K Read 1.13 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.24 115% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 107%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 133 133 21503017389 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 706 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 805 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 83 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 868 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 868 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 193274642470 (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	103% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 174 Mixed 149 127% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.18 88% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 239004072 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2203 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 109850208 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22078 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 639 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 60 572653602 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 50 50 101786 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 47244640290 (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 -98320391328516 (F1) Unknown 100 253 30058099057 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2260336885195	88.1% Excellent	Read 151 Write 156 Mixed 148 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.25 89% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 114%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 482GB free Firmware: JP4OA39C Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 93 93 262175 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 98 (03) Spinup time 120 120 21495480635 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3942 (05) Reallocated sector count 72 72 697 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 132 132 34 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 41029 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2152 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4279 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4279 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 244813987876 (C4) Reallocation count 72 72 705 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	56% Above average	Read 92.8 Write 102 Mixed 102 75% 99.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.42 89% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 74%
Philips USB Flash Drive 16GB 713 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 14GB free, PID 4200, phillips USB Flash Drive Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	6.5% Terrible	Read 23.6 Write 4.68 Mixed 4.89 10% 11.1 MB/s	4K Read 8.63 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.007 32% 2.88 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.5% Great: 10%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 2,290 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2200 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 29.9 MC Mixed 25.3 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 25.8 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 46.6 86% 46.6 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 63%

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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	3,383x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,664x
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	405x

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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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 $179	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