MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 94.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	54.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	78.5% 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	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 26 '16 at 01:04
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 127 2-Core 260 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 668 74% 583 Pts	64-Core 676 42% 676 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% MSI(1462 3413) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.300.2511.1001 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	54.2% Above average	Lighting 68.6 Reflection 68.6 Parallax 85.8 56% 74.3 fps	MRender 68.5 Gravity 65 Splatting 55.6 51% 63 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme 240GB-$200 7,034 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 85GB free Firmware: R201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 6075540 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 125430224941316 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 381 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 178 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 51 73017786399 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6075540 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6075540 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6075540 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4822 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3948 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3948 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4219	72.2% Very good	Read 515 Write 224 Mixed 287 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 15.5 120% 50.9 MB/s	DQ Read 34.2 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 14.4 30% 57.5 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 72.2% 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 below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 12652 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 191 (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 57 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 42 180389806111 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 141736542248 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 877 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1143 (F1) Unknown 253 253 921 (F2) Unknown 253 253 612 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	80.5% Excellent	Read 491 Write 331 Mixed 282 81% 368 MB/s	4K Read 34.8 4K Write 82.6 4K Mixed 19.5 122% 45.6 MB/s	DQ Read 35.8 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 42.4 55% 93.5 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 108%
SanDisk Extreme II 240GB-$110 3,009 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 13675 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 336 (A6) Unknown 100 100 190 (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 100 100 162 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 131 562641829925 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2377 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 74662 (F1) Unknown 253 253 23065 (F2) Unknown 253 253 12202 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	78.5% Very good	Read 468 Write 299 Mixed 309 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 16.4 133% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 34.4 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 52.9 48% 69.2 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 78.5% 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 (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 139 10225 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4657 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14126 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 189 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 53 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4603 (C2) HDA temperature 104 98 48 (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	86.7% Excellent	Read 159 Write 143 Mixed 134 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.67 4K Mixed 0.24 105% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 86.7% 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 (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 172 4108 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7964 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23354 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 273 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 79 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7884 (C2) HDA temperature 109 105 38 (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	45.3% Average	Read 82.9 Write 74.9 Mixed 70.4 57% 76.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.26 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.15 58% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 45.3% 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 way above expectations (97^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	MC Read 30.3 MC Write 31.9 MC Mixed 26.1 84% 29.4 GB/s	SC Read 20.3 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 26.4 67% 23.5 GB/s	Latency 49.5 81% 49.5 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 84%

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Gaming 56%

Gunboat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 44%

Speed boat

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

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	1,364x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,198x
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	145x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 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 $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