MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 103% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


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 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	114% 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	65.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 10 '18 at 09:40
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	CYP-User
Background CPU	0%

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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 i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 96.7 1-Core 112 2-Core 230 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 620 68% 535 Pts	64-Core 622 38% 622 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$265 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 153 Reflection 158 Parallax 150 125% 154 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 146 Splatting 114 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB-$80 762,998 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 226GB free Firmware: RVT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 486 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 155 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 63 58 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 98 98 1378 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2561593788	113% Outstanding	Read 531 Write 422 Mixed 212 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 94.9 4K Mixed 46.9 176% 61.8 MB/s	DQ Read 302 DQ Write 219 DQ Mixed 72.4 105% 198 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 129%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11343541 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 84851373915948 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4435 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 578 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 46 34362753058 (C2) HDA temperature 34 46 34362753058 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11343541 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11343541 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11343541 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22964 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16401 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16401 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20247	65.4% Good	Read 464 Write 176 Mixed 177 59% 273 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 91.8 4K Mixed 18.1 122% 47.6 MB/s	DQ Read 15.3 DQ Write 21 DQ Mixed 14.8 12% 17 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 87%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 36GB free Firmware: E7FM Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	172% Outstanding	Read 796 Write 711 Mixed 782 170% 763 MB/s	4K Read 47.2 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 57.2 221% 82.7 MB/s	DQ Read 534 DQ Write 779 DQ Mixed 164 262% 492 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 172% Great: 185%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 23GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11068 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3166 (B1) Unknown 98 98 62 (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 65 53 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 419 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19195011695	116% Outstanding	Read 530 Write 464 Mixed 429 106% 474 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 45.8 176% 65.5 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 108 133% 233 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 124%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$61 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 309GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 175 4033 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 372 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 492 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 156 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1350 (C2) HDA temperature 114 110 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	50.6% Above average	Read 87.3 Write 88.5 Mixed 63.1 59% 79.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.28 109% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	77.1% Very good	MC Read 29.2 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 23 77% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 26.7 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 51.4 78% 51.4 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 79%

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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	3,394x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,667x
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	560x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	407x

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	377x
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 $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 $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