MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	99% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	94.1% 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	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.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '18 at 17:13
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 5.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 121 2-Core 248 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 489 8-Core 479 65% 484 Pts	64-Core 484 30% 484 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% MSI(1462 C303) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	99% Outstanding	Lighting 129 Reflection 137 Parallax 130 105% 132 fps	MRender 96.2 Gravity 121 Splatting 103 87% 107 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15315 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1163 (B1) Unknown 90 90 198 (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 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 206 (F1) Unknown 99 99 80118961284	94.1% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 414 Mixed 419 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 41.9 4K Write 81.1 4K Mixed 25.7 139% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 43.9 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 25.6 60% 118 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 124%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 14GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 113 100 625 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 956 (A6) Unknown 100 100 463 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 515 (A9) Unknown 100 100 26 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 494 (AE) Unknown 100 100 237 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 100 240518168613 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 16 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 115541 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3516 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6902	81.1% Excellent	Read 502 Write 364 Mixed 416 95% 427 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 96.7 4K Mixed 4.34 102% 43.5 MB/s	DQ Read 194 DQ Write 309 DQ Mixed 4.25 73% 169 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 86%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 487GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 174 1858 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 712 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 679 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 48 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1554 (C2) HDA temperature 114 111 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	85.5% Excellent	Read 151 Write 147 Mixed 135 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 1.26 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.35 141% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 108%
WD Blue 250GB (2007)-$20 41,230 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 11GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 199 191 6307 (03) Spinup time 139 135 4025 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10683 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 32653 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3230 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 570 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10682 (C2) HDA temperature 112 88 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 164 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 164 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 1 0 (F0) Head flying hours 64 64 26497 (F1) Unknown 200 200 16352469187 (F2) Unknown 200 200 23235076128	33.2% Below average	Read 55.2 Write 60.1 Mixed 57.7 43% 57.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.43 96% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 33.2% Great: 55%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 18,444 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	MC Read 31.9 MC Write 34.1 MC Mixed 28 90% 31.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 26.5 67% 23.5 GB/s	Latency 49.6 81% 49.6 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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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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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