MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 89.6%, 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	236% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	20.5 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	4.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 17 '17 at 09:53
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	34%

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PC Performing above expectations (83^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 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 96.5 1-Core 141 2-Core 258 93% 165 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 703 71% 574 Pts	64-Core 760 47% 760 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3730) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 149 Parallax 127 112% 138 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 132 Splatting 109 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 476GB free Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	273% Outstanding	Read 2,268 Write 1,478 Mixed 1,461 384% 1,736 MB/s	4K Read 49.1 4K Write 150 4K Mixed 61.6 233% 86.9 MB/s	DQ Read 533 DQ Write 408 DQ Mixed 230 237% 390 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 273% Great: 283%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 166GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1358 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1220 (A5) Unknown 100 100 85926543711 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 32 (A8) Unknown 100 100 13 (A9) Unknown 100 100 564 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7 (AE) Unknown 100 100 329 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 67 287763988507 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1099528405248 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3593 (EA) Unknown 100 100 7190 (F1) Unknown 253 253 6591 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7906 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	89.8% Excellent	Read 495 Write 346 Mixed 332 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 37.2 4K Write 76.8 4K Mixed 21.1 124% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 43.1 97% 204 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 108%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 108GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1435 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1008 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 51 (AE) Unknown 99 99 130 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1028 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 18 27 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 13056 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7556 (F2) Unknown 99 99 6870	236% Outstanding	Read 1,945 Write 1,193 Mixed 1,449 339% 1,529 MB/s	4K Read 45.2 4K Write 147 4K Mixed 53.5 215% 82 MB/s	DQ Read 545 DQ Write 366 DQ Mixed 238 237% 383 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 236% Great: 220%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 917GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 4275 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1512 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1595 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1457 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 369 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 169 169 94206 (C2) HDA temperature 125 105 22 (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	71.1% Very good	Read 112 Write 136 Mixed 110 89% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.24 90% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMY8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMY16GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMY8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMY16GX3M2A1600C9 24GB 67 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	75.2% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 21.8 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 26.5 SC Mixed 24.3 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 52.3 76% 52.3 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 84%

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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	3,384x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,665x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	457x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,245x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	559x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	406x

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	376x
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 $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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