MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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.
Graphics	105% 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	84.2% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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	4.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Nov 17 '16 at 07:37
Run Duration	291 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	81.5% Excellent	Memory 89.6 1-Core 116 2-Core 225 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 396 8-Core 606 62% 501 Pts	64-Core 633 39% 633 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7586 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 148 Parallax 139 112% 142 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 134 Splatting 109 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteonit LAT-128M2S 128GB 477 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 78GB free Firmware: PMDA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 68 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1207 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 698 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 3808 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 580266704 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1366498	51.3% Above average	Read 373 Write 189 Mixed 251 60% 271 MB/s	4K Read 16.3 4K Write 50.7 4K Mixed 16.4 72% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 76.4 DQ Write 57.1 DQ Mixed 28.2 32% 53.9 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 52%
Crucial BX100 120GB-$70 6,931 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 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 1317 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 329 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 105 (A3) Unknown 100 100 23 (A4) Unknown 100 100 106253 (A5) Unknown 100 100 148 (A6) Unknown 100 100 51 (A7) Unknown 100 100 102 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 229 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 54 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 86932 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 294184 (F2) Unknown 100 100 187007 (F5) Unknown 100 100 425012	84.2% Excellent	Read 507 Write 180 Mixed 266 70% 318 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 34.3 143% 54.9 MB/s	DQ Read 258 DQ Write 177 DQ Mixed 67.7 91% 167 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 89%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 83GB free Firmware: 03.01A03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 171 2291 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 231 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4916 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 128 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 57 487915548 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 201 (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	57% Above average	Read 91.8 Write 107 Mixed 105 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.26 96% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 109%
USB DISK 3.0 124GB 271 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 115GB free, PID 5500 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	5.98% Terrible	Read 23.9 Write 4.81 Mixed 7.73 12% 12.1 MB/s	4K Read 6.18 4K Write 0.003 4K Mixed 0.002 23% 2.06 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.98% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Value DDR3 1600 C11 1x8GB 2,811 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	30.1% Below average	MC Read 10.1 MC Write 9.7 MC Mixed 8.2 27% 9.33 GB/s	SC Read 8.6 SC Write 10.7 SC Mixed 9.8 28% 9.7 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 30.1% Great: 34%

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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	3,376x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,661x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	457x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,240x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	557x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	403x

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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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