MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.5% 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	96.1% 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.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150528
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 10 '17 at 14:10
Run Duration	255 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	83.1% Excellent	Memory 92.4 1-Core 112 2-Core 246 84% 150 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 432 57% 430 Pts	64-Core 428 26% 428 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.5% Very good	Lighting 101 Reflection 108 Parallax 97.1 83% 102 fps	MRender 89.5 Gravity 93.1 Splatting 88 74% 90.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$81 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 204GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3124 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 814 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 61 50 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7772696915	115% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 413 Mixed 420 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 97.4 4K Mixed 49.9 186% 64.6 MB/s	DQ Read 268 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 123 136% 226 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 68GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4030 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1177 (B1) Unknown 95 95 106 (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 55 49 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 62 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25060682240	96.1% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 413 Mixed 415 99% 447 MB/s	4K Read 42.5 4K Write 95.8 4K Mixed 25.1 147% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 44.8 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 66.7 81% 133 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 115%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 1TB 18,390 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 647GB free Firmware: 0304 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	58.5% Above average	Read 95.5 Write 108 Mixed 70.6 68% 91.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.3 94% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 63%
WD Blue 500GB (2007)-$150 10,362 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 341GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 153 152 5341 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4651 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 42 42 43003 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3041 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 219 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4649 (C2) HDA temperature 108 98 39 (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		Read 92.1 Write 88.7 65% 90.4 MB/s
Poor: 22% Great: 51%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$39 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 319GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 169 169 2516 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1622 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4104 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1220 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 124 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1497 (C2) HDA temperature 112 97 31 (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
Poor: 52% Great: 109%
Generic- USB3.0 CRW -SD 8GB 65 User benchmarks, average bench 9% 7GB free, PID 0306 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	18.6% Very poor	Read 44.7 Write 12.4 Mixed 17.1 26% 24.7 MB/s	4K Read 9.91 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 1.91 180% 4.71 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 10,150 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	56.8% Above average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 17.7 58% 20.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 16 SC Mixed 12.3 40% 14 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 56.8% 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	3,413x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,681x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	463x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,257x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 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 $81Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	306x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	209x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	379x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	248x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	208x

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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $109	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16