MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	114% 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	69.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	14.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 12 '18 at 19:01
Run Duration	189 Seconds
Run User	CYP-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 97 1-Core 117 2-Core 228 85% 148 Pts	4-Core 432 8-Core 620 66% 526 Pts	64-Core 621 38% 621 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 153 Reflection 157 Parallax 150 125% 153 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 146 Splatting 113 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB-$80 762,998 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 226GB free Firmware: RVT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 508 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 165 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 62 58 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 98 98 1378 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2570611695	112% Outstanding	Read 528 Write 416 Mixed 212 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 94.8 4K Mixed 46.5 174% 61.2 MB/s	DQ Read 299 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 73.7 107% 201 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 129%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4778072 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 -103740640051390 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4445 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 578 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 33 46 34362753057 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 34362753057 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4778072 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4778072 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4778072 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 23030 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16441 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16441 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20273	69.4% Good	Read 459 Write 184 Mixed 242 65% 295 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 96.4 4K Mixed 22.6 132% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 32.7 DQ Write 20.5 DQ Mixed 14.9 14% 22.7 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 87%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 36GB free Firmware: E7FM Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	173% Outstanding	Read 800 Write 711 Mixed 779 170% 763 MB/s	4K Read 46.9 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 58.2 222% 83.1 MB/s	DQ Read 542 DQ Write 788 DQ Mixed 165 265% 498 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 173% Great: 185%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 23GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11090 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3176 (B1) Unknown 98 98 62 (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 65 53 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 419 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19204726759	108% Outstanding	Read 530 Write 343 Mixed 360 91% 411 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 45.1 174% 64.7 MB/s	DQ Read 304 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 92.3 123% 224 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 309GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 175 4058 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 390 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 514 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 166 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1403 (C2) HDA temperature 115 110 32 (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	50.6% Above average	Read 86.9 Write 88.9 Mixed 72.4 62% 82.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.27 109% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	77.2% Very good	MC Read 28.9 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 23 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 27.6 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 50.3 80% 50.3 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 79%

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Typical Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) Builds (Compare 6,764 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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 $133	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