MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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	64.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140627
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 09 '16 at 07:40
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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 3.9 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 116 2-Core 231 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 465 8-Core 465 62% 465 Pts	64-Core 464 29% 464 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 149 Parallax 128 115% 139 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 135 Splatting 104 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB-$40 2,820 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.2.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 160210363 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 -77610059022420 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 40 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 22 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 47 77312491555 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 160210363 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 160210363 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 160210363 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 13411 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12959 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12959 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6223	64.3% Good	Read 476 Write 130 Mixed 184 57% 263 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 98.2 4K Mixed 12.3 111% 46.3 MB/s	DQ Read 152 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 13.5 42% 92.7 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 80%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 466GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 95 193279520 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 42 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 37040614 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16342 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 39 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 114 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 64 56 739835940 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 22 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 26 26 148545 (C2) HDA temperature 36 44 73014444068 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 98 48 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 98 48 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -60022167954918 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13014410958 (F2) Unknown 100 253 21549040452	86.9% Excellent	Read 152 Write 151 Mixed 157 116% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.29 98% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 1866 4x4GB 174 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	72.7% Very good	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 23.1 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 23.3 61% 21.3 GB/s	Latency 54.7 73% 54.7 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 73%

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Gaming 42%

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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) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16