MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.7% 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	112% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	28.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 11 '18 at 19:07
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	81.1% Excellent	Memory 88.6 1-Core 124 2-Core 233 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 657 64% 527 Pts	64-Core 661 41% 661 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81.1% 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: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 121 Parallax 102 94% 113 fps	MRender 98.8 Gravity 104 Splatting 105 84% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 770GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	278% Outstanding	Read 2,543 Write 1,485 Mixed 1,382 397% 1,803 MB/s	4K Read 52.8 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 56.6 225% 82.3 MB/s	DQ Read 467 DQ Write 310 DQ Mixed 160 181% 312 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 278% Great: 302%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 389GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5561 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 512 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 68 58 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 70 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18939170712	112% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 402 Mixed 415 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 88.3 4K Mixed 48.4 174% 60 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 127 141% 240 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 133%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 144GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18430 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2096 (B1) Unknown 94 94 63 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 51 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 97 97 2075 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1217 (F1) Unknown 99 99 45302879487	93.3% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 337 Mixed 351 88% 395 MB/s	4K Read 42.6 4K Write 70 4K Mixed 27.2 136% 46.6 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 85.1 116% 216 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 118%
WD WD4002FFWX-68TZ4N0 4TB 829 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 2.5TB free Firmware: 83.H0A83 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 116 (03) Spinup time 253 253 25779372087 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 363 (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 100 100 583 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 95 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1272 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1272 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 201864773671 (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	115% Outstanding	Read 211 Write 191 Mixed 156 139% 186 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 4.61 4K Mixed 0.39 168% 1.98 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 C11 4x8GB 660 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (69^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.5% Above average	MC Read 18.2 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 15.4 50% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 19.1 SC Mixed 17.2 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 69 58% 69 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 60%

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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	3,392x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,666x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	457x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,245x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	559x
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	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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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