MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	115% 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	77.4% 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-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 22 '16 at 05:00
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.75 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Memory 95.3 1-Core 127 2-Core 249 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 604 67% 526 Pts	64-Core 681 42% 681 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6825 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Lighting 155 Reflection 169 Parallax 140 126% 154 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 149 Splatting 123 106% 130 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 317GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 855 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 30 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 76 65 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 586866138	114% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 499 Mixed 517 115% 514 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 46.4 180% 67.7 MB/s	DQ Read 38.8 DQ Write 301 DQ Mixed 27.8 64% 123 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%
Intel 520 Series 120GB-$199 19,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 97GB free Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -98191541405036 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 658 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 658 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 4502752 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 658 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 103597 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 46 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 103597 (F2) Unknown 100 100 89272 (F9) Unknown 100 100 2911	80.8% Excellent	Read 511 Write 151 Mixed 231 65% 298 MB/s	4K Read 37.9 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 23.8 148% 58.3 MB/s	DQ Read 206 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 43.7 70% 135 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 88%
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 9016955 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 93578747462047 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 371 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 43 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 74 77314261017 (C2) HDA temperature 25 74 77314261017 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9016955 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9016955 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9016955 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 37488 (EA) Unknown 0 0 27678 (F1) Unknown 0 0 27678 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8318	77.4% Very good	Read 518 Write 188 Mixed 236 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 24.2 142% 56.4 MB/s	DQ Read 38.7 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 58.1 50% 70.9 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 94%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$60 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 170 950 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3898 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9054 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 206 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 185 185 47603 (C2) HDA temperature 126 109 24 (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	59.3% Above average	Read 103 Write 104 Mixed 101 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.17 80% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1720 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	64.2% Good	MC Read 22.6 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 19.6 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 23.3 SC Mixed 21.3 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 63%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) - $242

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	1,371x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,204x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	390x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	319x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	316x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	310x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	165x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	147x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	144x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	84x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	77x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	74x

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Value: 92% - Outstanding

Total price: $532

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16