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 way above expectations (98th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 2 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 100%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Boot Drive	294% 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	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

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	15 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 21 '17 at 11:43
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing way above expectations (98^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 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Memory 98 1-Core 139 2-Core 284 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 559 8-Core 746 83% 652 Pts	64-Core 748 46% 748 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3360) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 141 346% 141 fps
Poor: 93% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force 3 240GB-$232 6,637 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 496GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 -101017630782052 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2041 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 681 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 28228 (EA) Unknown 0 0 43354 (F1) Unknown 0 0 43354 (F2) Unknown 0 0 34893
Poor: 31% Great: 67%
Corsair Force 3 240GB-$232 6,637 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 496GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4041502 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 25400436608423 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2042 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 681 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4041502 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4041502 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4041502 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 28192 (EA) Unknown 0 0 43486 (F1) Unknown 0 0 43486 (F2) Unknown 0 0 34939
Poor: 31% Great: 67%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 496GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 5987181 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 -61675730347409 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2041 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 763 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5987181 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5987181 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5987181 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 33502 (EA) Unknown 0 0 29866 (F1) Unknown 0 0 29866 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18644
Poor: 32% Great: 61%
SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB-$139 17,545 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 496GB free Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4608 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2902 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 118 (A9) Unknown 100 100 367 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65 (AE) Unknown 100 100 212 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 60 257698758688 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 528 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 17101 (F1) Unknown 253 253 10982 (F2) Unknown 253 253 9558 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0
Poor: 58% Great: 99%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 496GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 9806322 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 -129321465259522 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2042 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 765 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9806322 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9806322 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9806322 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 33016 (EA) Unknown 0 0 29424 (F1) Unknown 0 0 29424 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19076
Poor: 32% Great: 61%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 365GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	294% Outstanding	Read 2,660 Write 1,429 Mixed 1,464 407% 1,851 MB/s	4K Read 64.6 4K Write 173 4K Mixed 51.8 256% 96.5 MB/s	DQ Read 630 DQ Write 480 DQ Mixed 237 264% 449 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 294% Great: 254%
WD VelociRaptor 1TB-$268 8,165 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 931GB free Firmware: 04.06A00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 205 202 2733 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2944 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 19922 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2229 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 588 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2355 (C2) HDA temperature 123 105 27 (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	118% Outstanding	Read 222 Write 187 Mixed 178 147% 196 MB/s	4K Read 1.8 4K Write 4.42 4K Mixed 0.44 206% 2.22 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 117%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88% Excellent	MC Read 31.9 MC Write 32.7 MC Mixed 27.3 88% 30.6 GB/s	SC Read 23.7 SC Write 25.9 SC Mixed 28.6 74% 26.1 GB/s	Latency 46 87% 46 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 86%

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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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Value: 60% - Above average

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