MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 33% Sail boat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	29.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	85.6% 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-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	10 Days
Run Date	Aug 25 '16 at 20:24
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 96.9 1-Core 120 2-Core 241 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 411 8-Core 634 65% 523 Pts	64-Core 632 39% 632 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7950-$290 33,820 User benchmarks, average bench 29% PwrHis(1787 201C) 3GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.300.2511.1001 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	29.8% Poor	Lighting 38.5 Reflection 27.7 Parallax 47.6 31% 37.9 fps	MRender 26.4 Gravity 35.5 Splatting 34.5 27% 32.1 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 29.8% Great: 32%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme 240GB-$200 7,034 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 110GB free Firmware: R201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 8234636 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 40544491303167 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 375 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 175 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 51 73017786404 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8234636 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8234636 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8234636 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4816 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3944 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3944 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4214	84% Excellent	Read 498 Write 222 Mixed 279 73% 333 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 20.1 135% 55.3 MB/s	DQ Read 280 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 72.3 105% 196 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 91%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 51GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 12651 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 185 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12890734663 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 43 (A8) Unknown 100 100 16 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 54 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 42 180389806117 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 141736542248 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 876 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1138 (F1) Unknown 253 253 917 (F2) Unknown 253 253 579 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	70.9% Very good	Read 496 Write 194 Mixed 252 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 35.4 4K Write 80.3 4K Mixed 16.7 118% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 35.7 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 13.3 42% 86.2 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 108%
SanDisk Extreme II 240GB-$110 3,009 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 13674 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 330 (A6) Unknown 100 100 189 (A7) Unknown 100 100 11 (A8) Unknown 100 100 495 (A9) Unknown 100 100 175 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 292 (AE) Unknown 100 100 159 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 131 562641829926 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2377 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 74610 (F1) Unknown 253 253 23044 (F2) Unknown 253 253 12165 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	85.6% Excellent	Read 451 Write 401 Mixed 415 94% 422 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 19.5 137% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 35.6 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 65.4 54% 74.4 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 109%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 144 139 11775 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4651 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14122 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 183 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4600 (C2) HDA temperature 103 98 49 (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	87.5% Excellent	Read 157 Write 147 Mixed 138 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 3.04 4K Mixed 0.25 124% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 100%
WD WD20EURS-63S48Y0 2TB 12,928 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 71GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 172 4066 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7958 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23349 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 267 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 76 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7881 (C2) HDA temperature 112 105 35 (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	47.8% Average	Read 87.2 Write 79.1 Mixed 66.7 58% 77.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.2 73% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 992123 (997123) 2x8GB 44 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	82.2% Excellent	MC Read 30.1 MC Write 32.1 MC Mixed 26.1 84% 29.4 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 25.4 60% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 50.6 79% 50.6 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 84%

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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	1,367x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,199x
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	309x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	164x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	146x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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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Total price: $532

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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