MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	79.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	17.9 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '18 at 15:56
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (58^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 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	77.1% Very good	Memory 88.8 1-Core 103 2-Core 207 76% 133 Pts	4-Core 378 8-Core 382 51% 380 Pts	64-Core 390 24% 390 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AE) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	60.2% Good	Lighting 75.6 Reflection 76.1 Parallax 66.2 62% 72.6 fps	MRender 70.2 Gravity 70.3 Splatting 69.8 57% 70.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 360GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^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 1698 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 182 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 17 (AE) Unknown 100 100 33 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 59 176094511137 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 8871656508 (F7) Unknown 100 100 277853301 (F8) Unknown 100 100 75441169 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1947 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	79.9% Very good	Read 474 Write 333 Mixed 337 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 65.4 4K Mixed 23.2 102% 37.7 MB/s	DQ Read 262 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 46.8 84% 166 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 99%
Adata XPG SX900 128GB-$103 6,500 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 92GB free Firmware: 5.6.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8465795 (05) Reallocated sector count 97 97 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 -37761352453530 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 937 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 66 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 34 42 1009320067106 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8465795 (C4) Reallocation count 97 97 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8465795 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8465795 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16191 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9465 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9465 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12743	66.5% Good	Read 495 Write 137 Mixed 195 60% 276 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 89.9 4K Mixed 16.1 111% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 154 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 45.6 61% 110 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 924GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 75 105330257 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 301 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 69565 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 649 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 44 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 68 538116125 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 309 (C2) HDA temperature 29 12 51539607581 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 4 105330257 (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 20353850015906 (F1) Unknown 100 253 56425688 (F2) Unknown 100 253 48904569	100% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 168 Mixed 84.7 107% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.28 105% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 576GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 199010376 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1942 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 75684192 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12786 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 942 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 63 59 689176613 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 26 26 148278 (C2) HDA temperature 37 41 51539607589 (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 -130889128338284 (F1) Unknown 100 253 41534286708 (F2) Unknown 100 253 554820504821	84.2% Excellent	Read 156 Write 137 Mixed 24.9 77% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.2 68% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 234304408 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2663 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10970791 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5354 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 659 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 67 58 622067745 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 25459 (C2) HDA temperature 33 42 47244640289 (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 -62315680495957 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13629460427 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9175972585	85.1% Excellent	Read 163 Write 134 Mixed 48.1 84% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.2 64% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-14900CL8-4GBXM Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G 0420 F3-14900CL8-4GBXM Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G 24GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1867, 1600, 1867, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	58.2% Above average	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 17.3 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 18.3 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 68.7 58% 68.7 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 60%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	3,385x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,665x
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	406x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	414x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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 $300	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