MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	110% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	96.2% 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	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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 02 '18 at 17:06
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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 (99^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 93.3 1-Core 130 2-Core 272 91% 165 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 724 74% 598 Pts	64-Core 726 45% 726 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% XFX(1682 9395) CLim: 1060 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.1.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	59.3% Above average	Lighting 74.6 Reflection 63.5 Parallax 83.6 61% 73.9 fps	MRender 63.3 Gravity 58.4 Splatting 80.1 56% 67.3 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 57%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 154 Parallax 144 118% 148 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 141 Splatting 113 101% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D SATA M.2 500GB-$113 27,087 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 407GB free Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 822 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 108 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2818077 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 32 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 265 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 48 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 55 236224512032 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 21474836485 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 308 (EA) Unknown 100 100 355 (F1) Unknown 253 253 346 (F2) Unknown 253 253 622 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	86.1% Excellent	Read 473 Write 302 Mixed 290 78% 355 MB/s	4K Read 35.9 4K Write 73.2 4K Mixed 23.6 123% 44.2 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 206 DQ Mixed 50.5 99% 203 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 116%
PNY SSD2SC240G1CS2754D117-488 240GB 1,955 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 219GB free Firmware: CS211101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 469 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1003 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 234 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 257 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 103 (E7) Temperature 100 100 33 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 25 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3669 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5202	91.1% Outstanding	Read 490 Write 286 Mixed 364 84% 380 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 98.2 4K Mixed 35.1 137% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 273 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 66.1 107% 204 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 97%
Toshiba HG6 128GB 5,641 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 82GB free (System drive) Firmware: JURA0101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6286 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1353 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AD) Unknown 185 185 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 408 (C2) HDA temperature 70 53 201864577054 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	96.2% Outstanding	Read 468 Write 360 Mixed 271 81% 366 MB/s	4K Read 19.5 4K Write 92.3 4K Mixed 43.3 134% 51.7 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 158 155% 249 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 104%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 175 6033 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5933 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 5911 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1306 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 364 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 23501 (C2) HDA temperature 123 107 27 (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	73.6% Very good	Read 143 Write 114 Mixed 112 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.24 79% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GB 2,168 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	58.5% Above average	MC Read 21.1 MC Write 21 MC Mixed 16.6 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 19.7 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 88%

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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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Value: 60% - Above average

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