MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Raft	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	35.9% 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	60.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	28GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 28GB 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.

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System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	20.2 GB free of 28 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141223
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 30 '17 at 06:39
Run Duration	283 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4460-$194 245,403 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	Memory 83 1-Core 94.9 2-Core 185 70% 121 Pts	4-Core 358 8-Core 366 48% 362 Pts	64-Core 371 23% 371 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 72%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% MSI(1462 7917) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4624 Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	3.45% Terrible	Lighting 3.53 Reflection 5.35 Parallax 5.87 3% 4.92 fps	MRender 7.19 Gravity 2.27 Splatting 6.83 4% 5.43 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.45% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$59 946,701 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Nvidia(10DE 11BF) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	35.9% Below average	Lighting 46.7 Reflection 29.3 Parallax 41.9 38% 39.3 fps	MRender 37.6 Gravity 41.8 Splatting 37 32% 38.8 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 35.9% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 52GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 4946 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 444 (A5) Unknown 100 100 24327072454252 (A6) Unknown 100 100 18 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 69 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 48 (AE) Unknown 100 100 262 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 54 36 274877906990 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8216317527929 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5800 (EA) Unknown 100 100 27150 (F1) Unknown 253 253 10656 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8633 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	60.7% Good	Read 492 Write 322 Mixed 399 90% 404 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 68.7 4K Mixed 4.85 69% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 23.2 DQ Write 77.2 DQ Mixed 6.08 17% 35.5 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 78%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 85GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 172 2250 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2240 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14289 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1119 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 377 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1862 (C2) HDA temperature 107 89 36 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	75.5% Very good	Read 153 Write 110 Mixed 107 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.53 4K Mixed 0.21 96% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB-$33 44,469 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 30GB free Firmware: HP11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 230607003 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2803 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 16 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 349618376 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16615 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2806 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032858 (BD) vendor-specific 69 69 31 (BE) vendor-specific 66 51 589168674 (C2) HDA temperature 34 49 94489280546 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 26 230607003 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	38% Below average	Read 70.8 Write 61.4 Mixed 59.3 48% 63.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.54 107% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 38% Great: 68%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 17GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3825 (03) Spinup time 140 137 3991 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11167 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 28171 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3884 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 752 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10414 (C2) HDA temperature 108 86 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 196 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 199 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 191 0	42.7% Average	Read 79.6 Write 69 Mixed 86.4 59% 78.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.32 83% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 42.7% Great: 69%
ACER Hard Drive 500GB 82 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 50GB free, PID 2021 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	17.1% Very poor	Read 36.2 Write 41.2 Mixed 36.3 50% 37.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.25 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.19 39% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 17.1% Great: 30%
WD My Passport 259F 1TB 11,016 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 22GB free, PID 259f Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	28% Poor	Read 60.3 Write 62.9 Mixed 57.6 78% 60.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.19 68% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 28% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-1600C11-4GIS 0420 F3-12800CL10-8GBXL 0420 F3-1333C9-8GIS 0420 F3-1333C9-8GIS 28GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1600, 1600, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51.2% Above average	MC Read 18 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 16.1 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 17 SC Mixed 16.8 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 75.2 53% 75.2 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 52%

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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	3,394x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,668x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	458x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,246x
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 $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	306x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 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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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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 $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16