MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	3.74% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	115% 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	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

8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150811
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 29 '16 at 19:56
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 88 1-Core 116 2-Core 225 81% 143 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 602 66% 522 Pts	64-Core 604 37% 604 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% MSI(1462 7917) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4331 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.74% Terrible	Lighting 3.8 Reflection 6.19 Parallax 6 3% 5.33 fps	MRender 8.67 Gravity 2.43 Splatting 7.04 5% 6.05 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.74% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 158GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3152 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 102 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 25 (AE) Unknown 99 99 9 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 784 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 46 35 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 6400 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1360 (F2) Unknown 99 99 2104	115% Outstanding	Read 718 Write 658 Mixed 692 154% 689 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 96.5 4K Mixed 26.5 145% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 40.7 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 26.2 33% 56.4 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 220%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 28GB free Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7191 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 378 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 75 62 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 167 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4075950140	80.8% Excellent	Read 493 Write 346 Mixed 338 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 19.7 128% 45.2 MB/s	DQ Read 44.2 DQ Write 81.8 DQ Mixed 53.4 43% 59.8 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 108%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 168 6341 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2170 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6270 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 358 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 150 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 23672 (C2) HDA temperature 124 116 26 (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	65.2% Good	Read 117 Write 110 Mixed 115 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 0.28 114% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 71GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 141489296 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2914 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 37750749 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8745 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 760 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 93 93 7 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 64 454492186 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 213 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23940 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 51539607578 (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 77262166692244 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14670659203 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15287829135	81.5% Excellent	Read 169 Write 115 Mixed 118 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.24 80% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 112%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 1,758 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 530GB free, PID 0100 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	34.1% Below average	Read 71.2 Write 85.7 Mixed 49.8 88% 68.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.19 63% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 34.1% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-17000CL11-4GBSR 0420 F3-2400C10-4GZH 0420 F3-17000CL11-4GBSR 0420 F3-2400C10-4GZH 16GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2133, 2400, 2133, 2400 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	55.2% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 20 MC Mixed 15.6 54% 18.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 18.5 52% 18 GB/s	Latency 69.5 58% 69.5 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 59%

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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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Total price: $648

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