MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.8% 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	92.6% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150811
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 07 '17 at 20:13
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 86.6 1-Core 124 2-Core 249 85% 153 Pts	4-Core 431 8-Core 658 67% 544 Pts	64-Core 668 41% 668 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 368.39 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 118 Parallax 113 91% 114 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 102 Splatting 99.5 82% 99.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 220GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7233 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2540 (B1) Unknown 93 93 77 (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 62 47 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 428 (F1) Unknown 99 99 39562435847	82.3% Excellent	Read 489 Write 336 Mixed 347 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 39.4 4K Write 70.5 4K Mixed 17.3 119% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 266 DQ Write 89.4 DQ Mixed 51.3 71% 136 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 118%
Liteon IT L8T-128L9G 128GB 711 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: H871202 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^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 100 100 251 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 747 (B1) Unknown 100 100 38939 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 38 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 131 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 265 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 34 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 123891 (F2) Unknown 100 100 122399	92.6% Outstanding	Read 475 Write 320 Mixed 380 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 87.5 4K Mixed 33.4 131% 49.5 MB/s	DQ Read 333 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 13.1 93% 215 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 911GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 39385736 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4466 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 8706905125 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5477 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2395 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 63 55 639959077 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 327 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16301 (C2) HDA temperature 37 45 55834574885 (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 65287797870047 (F1) Unknown 100 253 42639084656 (F2) Unknown 100 253 43610712718	103% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 181 Mixed 171 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.36 111% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 112%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 1,619 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 641GB free, PID a00e Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	36% Below average	Read 84.6 Write 87.7 Mixed 69.9 103% 80.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.19 58% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 44%
Seagate Backup+ BK 1TB 2,655 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 44GB free, PID a013 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	42.2% Average	Read 98.5 Write 101 Mixed 81.8 120% 93.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.35 80% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 42.2% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 2133 C9 4x4GB 220 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.4% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 15.3 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 70.8 56% 70.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 115%

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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	3,377x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,661x
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	558x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	403x

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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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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