MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 83.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	97.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	28.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140731
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 10 '17 at 14:55
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (55^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)	83.1% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 120 2-Core 210 83% 142 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 603 61% 494 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Zotac(19DA 1370) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	63% Good	Lighting 79.6 Reflection 83.3 Parallax 80 65% 81 fps	MRender 81 Gravity 72.8 Splatting 66.8 59% 73.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 208GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11677 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 910 (B1) Unknown 80 80 237 (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 61 49 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 168 (F1) Unknown 99 99 122180736846	96.8% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 345 Mixed 360 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 76 4K Mixed 27.3 143% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 84.4 123% 233 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 118%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 198GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10105 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 646 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (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 59 48 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 34 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42676492152	97.4% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 349 Mixed 358 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 73 4K Mixed 29 143% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 97.8 128% 234 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 126%
Seagate ST31000520AS 1TB-$250 11,608 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 455GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 152317293 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7049 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 71 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11376700 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16283 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1303 (B7) Unknown 1 1 125 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 393223 (BD) vendor-specific 50 50 50 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 521994271 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 38654705695 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 35 152317293 (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 37525129280827 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3593415762 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3476281758	48.5% Average	Read 78.6 Write 90.2 Mixed 65.1 58% 78 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.36 85% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 62%
Seagate Expansion Desk 5TB 11,776 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 237GB free Firmware: 0909 Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	44% Average	Read 69.2 Write 82.5 Mixed 66.8 55% 72.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 6.23 4K Mixed 0.26 169% 2.36 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 44% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 230GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 201862120 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6090 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 139907670 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16055 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1237 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 66 46 572522530 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 235 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 26728 (C2) HDA temperature 34 54 42949672994 (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 46175193404781 (F1) Unknown 100 253 101553877195 (F2) Unknown 100 253 33930577772	70% Very good	Read 136 Write 108 Mixed 119 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.29 69% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G3D1608DT1TX0. 4x8GB 1,529 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	63.2% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 19.9 61% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 21 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 69%

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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	3,380x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,662x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	457x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,241x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	559x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	405x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	414x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	305x
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	205x

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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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