MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 40% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	62.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	109% 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.

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Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 24 '17 at 15:59
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	75.6% Very good	Memory 97.2 1-Core 106 2-Core 202 79% 135 Pts	4-Core 309 8-Core 341 43% 325 Pts	64-Core 438 27% 438 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290X-$549 37,353 User benchmarks, average bench 51% XFX(1682 9290) CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.2.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.4% Good	Lighting 81.5 Reflection 61.5 Parallax 83.1 66% 75.4 fps	MRender 61.7 Gravity 54.2 Splatting 79.2 55% 65 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 124GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3562 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 440 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 52 37 48 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 25 (EB) Unknown 99 99 39 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10851194303	109% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 400 Mixed 414 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 44.2 4K Write 81.4 4K Mixed 43.4 166% 56.3 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 114 138% 244 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 90GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11750 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1261 (B1) Unknown 97 97 28 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 60 41 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 112 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8558276521	92.1% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 350 Mixed 343 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 42.3 4K Write 64.8 4K Mixed 24.3 130% 43.8 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 67.8 110% 216 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 108%
WDC WD4003FZEX-00Z4SA0 64GB 27GB free Firmware: 000F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (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 15184 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1888 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 56 (AE) Unknown 100 100 278 (B5) Unknown 100 100 3659340448163 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 78 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	61.9% Good	Read 507 Write 110 Mixed 180 58% 266 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 80 4K Mixed 7.11 94% 38.5 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 7.62 55% 133 MB/s

Seagate ST1000DX001-1CM162 4TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 150 11075 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 542 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4403 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 517 (10) Unknown 8 192 152877175824 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 47 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 494 (C2) HDA temperature 109 94 43 (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	80.3% Excellent	Read 149 Write 130 Mixed 126 102% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.73 4K Mixed 0.22 101% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 82%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 443GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 9994872 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 948 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 30579310 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8490 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 857 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 45 672792613 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 277 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19862 (C2) HDA temperature 37 55 55834574885 (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 129991480187256 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13243471549 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23227053062	89% Excellent	Read 142 Write 168 Mixed 134 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 5.43 4K Mixed 0.61 191% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	61.5% Good	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 19.6 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 19.5 SC Mixed 16.6 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 49.5 81% 49.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	3,379x
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	1,240x
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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $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