MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	94.1% 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	71.8% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150528
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '17 at 18:50
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.6 GHz, turbo 5.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 95.8 1-Core 131 2-Core 270 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 514 8-Core 721 78% 618 Pts	64-Core 721 45% 721 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3232) CLim: 1629 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 125 Parallax 112 99% 120 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 111 Splatting 96.7 84% 103 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 121GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 12927431 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -17506286695528 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 60 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 39 85901901850 (C2) HDA temperature 26 39 85901901850 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12927431 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12927431 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12927431 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 94 94 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2230 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3227 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3227 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3276 (F4) Unknown 98 98 5832793	71.8% Very good	Read 467 Write 191 Mixed 248 66% 302 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 16.4 118% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 137 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 32.7 62% 123 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 85%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 30GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10971 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 299 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 70 53 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 63 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3807378991
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 30GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10971 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 299 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 54 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 64 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3813106390
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 175 5858 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 122 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4053 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 122 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3625 (C2) HDA temperature 111 109 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	56.8% Above average	Read 99.2 Write 98.5 Mixed 103 76% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.28 105% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 84%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 237GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 171 4333 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 228 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9510 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 227 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 191 191 27996 (C2) HDA temperature 114 108 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	61.5% Good	Read 127 Write 86.8 Mixed 88.5 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.16 74% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 84%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 498 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 67 44 10054 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1473 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 28946 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1312 (B5) Unknown 97 97 77473846 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 130 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 54 197569478690 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 5 5 50807 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 135 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 62 62 393938	38.6% Below average	Read 54.7 Write 79.5 Mixed 68.2 51% 67.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.27 73% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 9,944 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	69.8% Good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 25.4 MC Mixed 21.3 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 19 SC Write 24.6 SC Mixed 22.9 63% 22.2 GB/s	Latency 54.6 73% 54.6 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 70%

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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	3,385x
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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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 $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