MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 79.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	17.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	37% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

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

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	1.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20141223
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jun 15 '18 at 06:34
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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 way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	79.7% Very good	Memory 97.6 1-Core 116 2-Core 235 86% 150 Pts	4-Core 337 8-Core 471 51% 404 Pts	64-Core 471 29% 471 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6870 25,443 User benchmarks, average bench 15% PwrHis(1787 2305) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	17.1% Very poor	Lighting 23 Reflection 15.7 Parallax 19.8 19% 19.5 fps	MRender 13.9 Gravity 15.6 Splatting 20.1 14% 16.5 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 17.1% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM830 128GB 13,767 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19764 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1757 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 71 71 1052 (B2) Unknown 94 94 116 (B3) Unknown 94 94 224 (B4) Unknown 94 94 3808 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 13 (E8) Unknown 94 94 1900 (F1) Unknown 99 99 57520854999 (F2) Unknown 99 99 53687972523	37% Below average	Read 429 Write 94.9 Mixed 88.6 44% 204 MB/s	4K Read 2.17 4K Write 30.7 4K Mixed 5.84 27% 12.9 MB/s	DQ Read 231 DQ Write 39.4 DQ Mixed 14.7 42% 95 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 37% Great: 73%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$70 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 177 5983 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4540 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 21119 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1948 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 123 123 232292 (C2) HDA temperature 117 109 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	54% Above average	Read 96.6 Write 91.2 Mixed 50.6 59% 79.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.21 93% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 54% Great: 63%
Hitachi HDS721010DLE630 1TB-$150 19,279 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 511GB free Firmware: MS2OA5R0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 73 (03) Spinup time 124 124 12897026232 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 8331 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 115 115 34 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 18774 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1462 (C0) Power-off retract count 94 94 8334 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 8334 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 180389412898 (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	62.3% Good	Read 96.2 Write 121 Mixed 9.92 54% 75.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.11 65% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 99%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 106GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6160 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10115 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10958 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 35719 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1901 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 46 387121175 (C2) HDA temperature 73 42 60583772187 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 445830 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	35.9% Below average	Read 68 Write 57.2 Mixed 36.4 40% 53.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.29 67% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 35.9% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C11 2x4GB 6,575 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	79.7% Very good	MC Read 29.7 MC Write 30.9 MC Mixed 22.9 80% 27.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.8 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 25.8 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 47.8 84% 47.8 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 77%

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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	3,402x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,673x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	459x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,249x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	561x
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 $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	209x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	379x
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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16