MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 83.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	80.8% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	28.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1824 x 1026 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '17 at 18:24
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.3% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 116 2-Core 215 82% 141 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 599 62% 499 Pts	64-Core 600 37% 600 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.5% Good	Lighting 80.9 Reflection 78.5 Parallax 68.7 66% 76 fps	MRender 72 Gravity 70.8 Splatting 72.7 59% 71.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SP900 256GB- 18 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 155GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0. Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 12095294 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 -28716151336664 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 959 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 427 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 58 47248441379 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12095294 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12095294 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12095294 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4372 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3862 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3862 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2707	80.8% Excellent	Read 511 Write 226 Mixed 311 77% 349 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 16.1 128% 55.8 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 61.3 90% 167 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 81%
Adata SP900 256GB 105 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 98GB free Firmware: 5.0. Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4554890 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 -139878494879931 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1599 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 774 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 50 47247917088 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4554890 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4554890 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4554890 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 19869 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8086 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8086 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7101	80.8% Excellent	Read 378 Write 282 Mixed 287 70% 316 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 17.5 135% 56.9 MB/s	DQ Read 241 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 64.6 92% 170 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 87%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$86 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 177 5925 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1945 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5468 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 561 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1888 (C2) HDA temperature 121 109 29 (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	64.7% Good	Read 116 Write 110 Mixed 108 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.2 89% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 88%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 330GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 224760088 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3773 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 177994022 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7720 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1325 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 34 51960086553 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 66 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 264 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 199904 (C2) HDA temperature 25 66 12884901913 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 119 99 224760088 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 30159260358177 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3433195987 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1784100785 (FE) Unknown 1 1 61	50% Above average	Read 86.3 Write 88.2 Mixed 78.7 63% 84.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.62 4K Mixed 0.18 56% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 58%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 179GB free Firmware: 20.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 140 138 3991 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 770 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3847 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 417 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 191 191 27723 (C2) HDA temperature 113 97 30 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 96 96 3146 (F1) Unknown 200 200 11244325857 (F2) Unknown 200 200 16753584972	54.5% Above average	Read 94.5 Write 95.5 Mixed 94.3 71% 94.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.43 103% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GB 2,445 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	60.3% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 21.8 MC Mixed 18.1 59% 20.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 20.3 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 62.4 64% 62.4 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 85%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

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	3,394x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,669x
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 $80Bench 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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Value: 60% - Above average

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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16