MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 81.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	75.6% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141106
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Jul 28 '17 at 20:25
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.05 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	81.5% Excellent	Memory 84 1-Core 132 2-Core 223 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 610 65% 518 Pts	64-Core 663 41% 663 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1580 MHz, MLim: 1842 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.94 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 43% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 51GB free Firmware: EXT0BB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9071 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2019 (B1) Unknown 98 98 20 (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 69 53 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 22 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8948018545	96.5% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 338 Mixed 357 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 77.3 4K Mixed 27.7 144% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 80.3 121% 230 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 118%
Crucial MX300 750GB-$109 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 48GB free Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd 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 1937 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 257 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 11 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 50 214749347874 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 9522433054 (F7) Unknown 100 100 297621614 (F8) Unknown 100 100 150682744 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3570 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	88.6% Excellent	Read 481 Write 340 Mixed 338 86% 386 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 79.9 4K Mixed 26.9 119% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 45.8 100% 209 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 104%
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 42GB free Firmware: SAFM00.r Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^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 4095 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 687 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 694 (AD) Unknown 100 100 720941 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 2949131 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C2) HDA temperature 68 54 197569609760 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3104 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2608 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6716 (F4) Unknown 100 100 11 (F5) Unknown 100 100 45 (F6) Unknown 100 100 787072	102% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 504 Mixed 512 114% 511 MB/s	4K Read 31.9 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 14 122% 50 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 347 DQ Mixed 14.4 104% 239 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 111%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 25GB free (System drive) Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 24728887 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 19748259634006 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1369 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 19 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 47 68722556957 (C2) HDA temperature 29 47 68722556957 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 24728887 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 24728887 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 24728887 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16745 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16152 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16152 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8655	75.6% Very good	Read 487 Write 165 Mixed 235 64% 296 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 97.8 4K Mixed 21.3 129% 50.8 MB/s	DQ Read 193 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 49.7 75% 141 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 20,728 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	47.6% Average	MC Read 16.6 MC Write 16.9 MC Mixed 14.9 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 16.3 SC Mixed 15.7 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 73.4 54% 73.4 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 62%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	3,397x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,671x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	459x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,247x
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 $79Bench 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 $290	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16